From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E9y3G-00031E-MY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:48:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7U4jt7o025721; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:45:55 GMT Received: from mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony1.iinet.net.au (mail-iinet.icp-qv1-irony1.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.195]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7U4gJoQ005285 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:42:20 GMT Received: from 203-59-166-20.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO moriah.localdomain) (203.59.166.20) by mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony1.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 30 Aug 2005 12:44:12 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 421E5BB366 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:44:10 +0800 (WST) Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31854-01 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:44:05 +0800 (WST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A85E68D9 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:44:05 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question From: "W.Kenworthy" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b05082921287f3d5344@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b05082917503ef84c56@mail.gmail.com> <1125367634.20471.73.camel@localhost> <5bdc1c8b05082921287f3d5344@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:44:04 +0800 Message-Id: <1125377044.20471.96.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain X-Archives-Salt: 12d56417-086b-42bf-86a2-b15a637b3456 X-Archives-Hash: e43ed7cbda9e1f9c8ba0cfcb45fcc75e /dev/hda3 is the backup/rescue. What I did last time I built a system, is used this to build a working system. Put it into service, adjust/configure until I am happy. Create the LVM in prep for the main install. Copy the rescue system to the LVM and setup grub. reboot into the main and go from there. The original is then available as a backup. Unless a severe security vul exists, I dont fiddle with it until a major kernel update occurs. Grub is: ____________________________________ default 0 fallback 2 timeout 5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz configfile=(hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf title=Gentoo Sources (2.6.13-r7) resume root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/linux-2.6.13-rc7 root=/dev/hda5 splash=verbose vga=0x317 elevator=cfq gentoo=nodevfs resume2=swap:/dev/hda2 title=Gentoo Sources (2.6.13-r7) NOresume root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/linux-2.6.13-rc7 root=/dev/hda5 splash=verbose vga=0x317 elevator=cfq gentoo=nodevfs resume2=swap:/dev/hda2 noresume ... title=Gentoo Sources (2.6.11-r9) RESCUE root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/hda3 splash=verbose elevator=cfq gentoo=nodevfs resume2=swap:/dev/hda2 noresume __________________________________ I am using a patched for suspend2 kernel (vanilla here, but gentoo sources when its available. I do not use genkernel: it has caused me too many problems in the past. BillK On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 21:28 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 8/29/05, W.Kenworthy wrote: > > My scheme is: ... > > Thanks Bill, > That's very helpful. To test my understanding > > /dev/hda1 - boot - 100M > /dev/hda2 - swap - 2G > /dev/hda3 - NOT CLEAR - the backup/rescue install? > /dev/hda4 - LVM - 200G > /dev/hda5 - root - 4G > > So you've placed pretty much the bulk of the machine in LVM and it's > working well for you. That's cool. > > Could you possibly share a bit from your grub.conf file as well as > your fstab file? I think with that info I'd be pretty confident when I > do the build tomorrow morning. > > Thanks, > Mark > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list