On 22-Dec-2006 15:50.59 (GMT), John Reiser wrote:
LVM does not inter-operate with anything else.
Grub does not work under LVM.
That's why you have a boot partition to load the kernel and initrd from.
The installer outlines this when you install. And the kernels always get put
into the /boot partition so they are accessible from grub.
Parted does not grok LVM:
you cannot create a hard partition from LVM free space.
No, of course you can't. But you seem to be speaking from an
interoperability perspective: If you dedicate an area of disk to a Linux
logical volume manager, you don't expect to have the space available for
whatever other operating systems you have on your computer.
And remember, not everyone dual boots.
Using the rescue CDs is a nightmare under LVM: the LVM
setup is not recognized automatically (you must remember
what it is) and the rescue environment contains no help
or documentation on LVM (such as: the _syntax_ for naming
the pieces!)
It's really simple:
lvm vgchange -a y
And that's all.
LVM probably kills all low-level backup and recovery.
"Probably" does not make for a good argument.
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