Re: mkinitrd and glibc version problem in etch
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:13:48AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:14:54PM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote:
[..]
> >
> > As I said, I am at home with fdisk and parted. And can boot from
> > knoppix and copy a whole partition off when I need to, whereas knoppix
> > doesn't seem to know about the lvm partitions. Probably my lack of
> > knowledge, though: I am sure knoppix can mount the LVM in capable hands.
> > I expect I am just showing my age.
>
> I've never bothered to figure out how to get a LiveCD to mount my LVM
> (some of which is sitting on top of raid1). The way it works is that
> the kernel should boot. If it doesn't, there's the installer CD in
> rescue mode.
>
> Some filesystem types allow shrinking, others don't. If you need to
> shrink one and the filesystem doesn't allow it, you have to create a new
> LV, put a new filesystem on it, move the data, and remove the old LV.
>
> The best HOWTO is the LVM howto in the doc-linux package (from
> tldp.org). The trick is to be aware of the layers and to resize things
> at the right layer. Yes the concept is complicated, but the actual
> useage is rather magical.
>
> Whatever floats your boat.
It really does seem that I shall have to find time to get round LVM some
day. Thanks for your input, Doug.
--
richard
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