[CentOS] Partitioning with LVM

[Wojtek.Pilorz]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, tblader wrote:

> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:28:47 -0500
> From: tblader <tblader at flambeau.com>
> Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Partitioning with LVM
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> Noob Centos Admin wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> > /boot isn't allowed to be on a LVM, RAID 1 at most.
> 
> I think manual partitioning from fdisk will allow it anyway ;)
> 
> > 
> > I'll keep in mind the problem of unmounting and fsck if I ever run into 
> > it. Although, what do you do after booting from Knoppix?
> 
> It's changed a bit from Knoppix 4, 5, and 5.1.  Basically I boot into
> runlevel 3 and get lvm started either through lvmchage -a (I think)
> or running the init script.  This will activate any lvm partitions
> that Knoppix can find, but doesn't mount them.
As far as I know, lvm support has been added in Knoppix 5.1.

Be aware, that if you edit a file with Knoppix, it might not have SELinux 
labels appropriately set, so fixfiles or equivalent might be needed in 
CentOS to have the system run correctly (I run into this problem after
editing /etc/fstab and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 on a 
cloned FC6 with Knoppix; got some avc messages and before running fixfiles
swap had not been automatically enabled, network interface did not work.)


> 
> then I can use e2fsck (or equivalent) to fixup or resize any lvm
> partitions.
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