[CentOS] LVM question

Tue Jan 17 13:40:56 UTC 2012
Steve Thompson <smt at vgersoft.com>

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Jonathan Vomacka wrote:

> 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?

/boot on LVM is quite safe as long as it is below 2GB. Hopefully it is.

> 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.

Swap on LVM is quite safe; in fact it is desired.

-s