On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 08:22:08PM -0600, compdoc wrote: > >Just curious, why have you stopped using LVM? > > > Simply for ease of maintenance: some recovery and backup utilities like > clonezilla can't work with LVM. And because the same names for volume groups > are used for each centos install, so trying to attach a drive or volume to a > new system for rescue causes conflicts unless you take steps and use unique > names from the start. (Although I hear that newer versions of centos/RH will > create unique names for you) Not all that unique, but a bit better--I think it's VolumeGroup00/lvm_root, VolumeGroup00/lvm_swap, and things like that. (Keeping both LVs in the same VG by default.) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: It's time for me to act like a man... and hide.