On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Muhammad Panji <sumodirjo at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Jonathan Vomacka <juvix88 at gmail.com>wrote: > >> CentOS Community, >> >> It is to my understanding that the /boot partition should never be >> placed on LVM and should be a physical partition on the hard drives >> (or on top of a RAID array). Is this an accurate statement? >> > Yup. Because GRUB < 1.95 cannot read it > http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-lvm-diskdruid-manual.html > > >> >> Also please advise if the SWAP filesystem is safe to be placed under >> LVM, or if this should be a hard partition / hard limit as well. I am >> unsure if boot issues or any filesystem issues would be caused by >> placing them on LVM. Please educate me if possible. >> > The default partition from anaconda put the swap on LVM so I think that > wouldn't be a problem. > even if you need more swap you can make (additional) swap file. > Regards, > > > > > > > -- > ----- > Muhammad Panji > http://www.panji.web.id http://www.kurungsiku.com > http://sumodirjo.wordpress.com http://www.kurungsiku.web.id > > http://www.linuxbox.web.id > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Okay, So I guess it is safe to say that SWAP can be placed on LVM but /boot can not? /boot should be made with EXT3 i assume, correct?