LVM should not be used by default with FC3

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Thu Oct 7 15:01:56 UTC 2004


Once upon a time, Steven Pritchard <steve at silug.org> said:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:56:06AM -0400, David Hollis wrote:
> > My /etc/fstab entries look like:
> > 
> > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                       ext3    defaults
> > 1 1
> 
> This reminds me...  Is there any particular reason the default names
> of volume groups are "VolGroupXX" instead of something simpler like
> "vg00"?  Ditto with logical volumes.

I typically make the volume group match the hostname and the logical
volumes match the filesystem (so the system "flea.hiwaay.net" has
/dev/flea/usr, /dev/flea/tmp; / is /dev/flea/root).  Making the volume
group distinct is good if you have a need to move a drive from one
system to another (having two VolGroup00 is NOT good), and naming the
logical volumes sensible just makes it much easier to tell what is what.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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