From: gottlieb@nyu.edu
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:19:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sixschz7.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPrc82JPq_EoGB-crgWYFk3MMSMVUm8jvn=vMJyJbymBdqMkg@mail.gmail.com> ("Canek Peláez Valdés"'s message of "Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:29:32 -0500")
On Thu, Aug 29 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> As James said, the docs are being reorganized. However, I did a
> systemd+LVM installation (just because I was getting tired of not
> knowing what the fuss was all about), and (in my experience) there are
> almost no changes from the regular installation in the handbook.
>
> I put everything in LVM (/, /boot, everything).
I am not so ambitious. /+/boot+/usr one ext4 partition not on lvm
> From my notes, the only changes are:
>
>>From the livecd:
> 1. Use partitions, not whole disks (GRUB2 got confused when I tried to
> use whole disks).
> 2. Set the partition type as LVM (8e in fdisk).
> 3. Create the Physical Volume, the Volume Group, and the Logical
> Volumes as desired.
> 4. Continue the normal installation, just using /dev/vg0/lvolX (or
> whatever names you choose).
There is a little more (activating or something the LVs) especially if
you shutdown in the middle of the installation and resume it later.
> After the chroot and emerging the kernel package:
> 1. Se the LVM options in the kernel. Compile, install it.
> 2. Emerge systemd.
> 3. Emerge dracut (USE="device-mapper", DRACUT_MODULES="systemd lvm", at least).
> 4. Set add_dracutmodules="systemd" in /etc/dracut.conf.
> 5. Weirdly, set lvmconf="no" in /etc/dracut.conf. I didn't even
> touched /etc/lvm/lvm.conf, so I think leaving it out makes dracut to
> autoconfigure it. If I put lvmconf="yes", the boot hangs. Didn't
> investigated why.
> 6. Emerge GRUB2 (USE="device-mapper mount"); I don't know if GRUB
> works with LVM, but GRUB2 does, so I used that.
> 7. Set GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="lvm",
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd", in
> /etc/default/grub.
> 8. Generate initramfs, generate /boot/grub2/grub.cfg, install GRUB2
> with grub2-install.
> 9. Reboot. Everything works.
>
> GRUB2 handles LVM just fine, I believe, but my LVM setup was dead
> simple (the VG was just the only partition of all my disks).
> dracut+systemd takes care of everything else; I didn't even had to do
> something special in fstab, since I used labels.
>
> To extend/reduce your Logical Volumes you will need a livecd, or a
> more complex initramfs, though.
>
> Regards.
I have experience with LVM, but not systemd or dracut or initramfs
* both grub and grub2 support lvm
* Never did 2,3,4,5,7, or the initramfs part of 8
My goal is to have this system (an older laptop) setup like my current
laptop (grub2, openrc, root+/usr, etc). Then I will convert OLD to
systemd. Once I have done this and moved my work from CURRENT to OLD, I
will convert CURRENT to systemd and move back.
thanks to you and james for your helpful comments.
allan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-29 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-29 15:47 [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go? gottlieb
2013-08-29 16:56 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2013-08-29 21:02 ` gottlieb
2013-08-29 17:29 ` [gentoo-user] " Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-08-29 21:19 ` gottlieb [this message]
2013-08-30 0:30 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-08-30 1:45 ` gottlieb
2013-08-30 2:29 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-08-30 5:21 ` J. Roeleveld
2013-08-30 5:36 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-08-30 6:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-30 7:16 ` Dale
2013-08-30 14:05 ` Tanstaafl
2013-08-30 14:28 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-08-30 14:37 ` Tanstaafl
2013-08-30 14:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-30 14:59 ` Tanstaafl
2013-08-30 14:56 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-08-31 11:31 ` [gentoo-user] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2013-08-30 14:13 ` [gentoo-user] " Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-08-30 5:47 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-30 7:17 ` Dale
2013-08-30 5:21 ` J. Roeleveld
2013-08-30 6:13 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-30 5:21 ` J. Roeleveld
2013-08-30 5:20 ` J. Roeleveld
2013-08-30 15:18 ` gottlieb
2013-08-30 16:48 ` joost
2013-08-30 19:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-31 14:18 ` gottlieb
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