Re: Good fdisk Practices

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:14:42 -0700
David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu> wrote:

> 
> On Aug 24, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote:
> 
> > If you use LVM you're stuck with a separate, non-LVM /boot partition
> > AFAIK. Or is this outated info?
> 
> I think that's true.  I don't usually make the root filesystem an LVM  
> volume, anyway.  In most distributions it's quite small and making it  
> a "normal" partition makes some recovery scenarios easier -- it's  
> just one less thing that has to work for the system to boot into  
> single user mode.

I believe it is actually outdated information; GRUB apparently supports
LVM these days:

http://grub.enbug.org/LVMandRAID

Celejar
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