Wojtek.Pilorz spake the following on 4/3/2007 11:38 PM:
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, tblader wrote:
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:28:47 -0500 From: tblader tblader@flambeau.com Reply-To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Partitioning with LVM
Noob Centos Admin wrote:
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/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.
Then could you use the CentOS live CD? Shouldn't it be closer to the running environment?