Phil Dybvig wrote: > it was hung and did a hard reboot). Setting up verbose logging for lvm > yielded ``no volume groups found'' so i figured it wasn't doing anything > and I disabled > it by renaming /sbin/lvm.static to /sbin/lvm.static.bk. Then booting has > been fast and the /dev/hda and /dev/hdb errors from the cd drives > disappeared. > > All of this is good so far, but I want to ask to make sure that lvm isn't > something I will need later and do not want to disable. Also, out of > curiosity, Logical volume management allows you to use multiple physical disks as if they were a single disk. That can make partitioning and system administration easier, but the downside is that if one disk fails, you can lose a lot more data than you might have done without LVM. (It also leads to problems upgrading, as you mentioned). If you don't use LVM, you don't need it! However, renaming a binary file can't be the right way to do it! rc.sysinit has a reference to /etc/lvmtab. If you have this file and don't use LVM, you should delete it as that determines whether LVM is set up. Jonathan
