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 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 >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> Then could you use the CentOS live CD? Shouldn't it be closer to the running environment? -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!