On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:03:26AM -0400, Michael H. Semcheski wrote: > On 7/31/07, Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > However, I've decided that it causes unnecessary complications, > > as some applications do not seem to accept the LVM devices, > > while I don't find any real advantages to compensate. > > I think it definitely can make rescues and recovery more difficult. > But, not impossible. Agreed. You need a rescue/recovery disk that supports LVM, like finnix. I had lots of fun adding LVM support to my script. LVM is not documented at the level I needed, so it was a lot of reading the code, reverse engineering, and "by guess and by golly!". http://www.charlescurley.com/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.html -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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