On Friday 30 April 2004 05:11, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: neil [mailto:neilcuk@xxxxxxx] > > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 10:35 PM > > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > > Subject: Re: what are the restrictions on bootable partitions? > > > > > > > > > > rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > what are the restrictions on where i can install another > > linux distro > > >onto my fedora core (actually, FC2-t3) system so that grub > > can find it? > > >(even though this is a test version of fedora, this question actually > > >refers to FC distros in general.) > > > > > > > > There are no restrictions other than the boot loader (grub) > > must be able > > to read the boot partition. > > > > > typically, for historical reasons, even when i use LVM, i > > create a small > > >primary, ext3 filesystem for /boot, and use LVM for the rest > > of the drive. > > >is there any compelling reason for doing this anymore? what's the > > >recommended strategy for LVM? and need for a non-LVM > > filesystem on newer > > >machines? > > > > > It really depends on what the system will be used for. Check out the > > howto here: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html > > I've actually looked through the howto but am still unable to determine > how to actually create a lvm system. I've recompiled my kernel to > have the devive mapper as a module and modprobe'ed it. > > When I try to do vgscan it states that the kernel modules are not loaded. I don't remember how I did this with RH9 to make it work, but I remember I played a bit whth modprobe, the LVM tools and the man pages :) > > Please help. http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-lvm.html http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-lvm-intro.html http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/ch-lvm.html http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/ch-lvm-intro.html http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/ch-lvm-intro.html ... I did install FC1 with Software Raid 5 and LVM on top of it, but doing so on less than three physical disks results to up to 5 times slower transfer (because of the raid). If you have 3 disks read speed increases and the write speed is almost the same. Using ReiserFS I was able to resize 61G LV to 64G LV without errors. With ext3 it worked, but fsck.ext3 had a lot of work to do (the partition was ~50G full). I hope one day online resize will work with bouth and reiserfs will get more stable with acl and SELinux support. http://www.aplawrence.com/Linux/lvm.html ps: putting the /boot partiton ouside the LVM worked fine for me. -- Regards, Doncho N. Gunchev Registered Linux User #291323 at counter.li.org GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/DA454F79 Key fingerprint = 684F 688B C508 C609 0371 5E0F A089 CB15 DA45 4F79
