On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 09:22 +0200, Antonio Montagnani wrote: > Rick Wagner ha scritto / wrote il / on 12/04/2005 00:53: > > >On Sunday 10 April 2005 2:34 am, Antonio Montagnani wrote: > > > > > >>I tried to install Fedora on an external USB HD. > >>Of course booting from it didn't work. > >>On the disk there are an ext3 partition /boot and a LVM partition > >>If I connect the HD to a PC as USB device it is correctly mounted but I > >>see only the ext3 partition. > >>How can I see also the LVM??? > >Since no one else has answered, I'll take a stab. I have used LVM on several > >permanent hard drives, but never on removables. However I think what your > >looking to do is a udev script. Check out the information on udev. Also > >look for hotplug. > > > >What you'll want your script to do is upon detecting the plugging of your USB > >drive, it will want to scan (vgscan/lvscan) the drive for LVM volumes, then > >activate the volume (vgchange/lvchange --available=yes). > > > >I'm not sure what you want to do for unplugging. I expect that you'll need a > >script to flush then deactivate the volumes prior to pulling the plug on the > >drive. > > > >As I said, I don't know much about hotplug and udev, but this may give you > >some additional search hints. > > > > --rick > Rick, > > Tnx for you reply. > > There are two separate issues: > > 1) how to manage a LVM partitioned removable device (USB hard disk, key > etc.): does it make any sense to have them partitioned as LVM?? > 2) how to install Fedora on a removable device (USB hard disk, for > example) and boot off it (with Grub installed on it, in order to have a > removable Fedora installation for every occasion) > > I have not enough skill to solve them. Any idea?? > > -- > Antonio M. Hi I may be able to help with the second question I have a pdf document which I can email direct if you want Let me know John > > ================================================================================ > Mail by Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 Websurfing by Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2 > ================================================================================ > Posta con Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 Navigazione con Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2 > ================================================================================ >
