Fedora Core formalism

[Tony Alfrey]

Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> On Saturday 10 March 2007 22:56, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> Net Llama! wrote:
>>> On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>>> Now my next question is how do I mount this VolGroup thing so that I can
>>>> access it from the outside world (from another partition)?  The
>>>> traditional method for mounting an ext3 filesystem does not work,
>>>> because there is more than just an ext3 filesystem in this VolGroup
>>>> thing.
>>> You can't unless you've got a kernel which has LVM support.
>> Hmmm,  that's a pain.  I can recompile my SuSE kernel, or set up the
>> disks to boot in the opposite order, but then I have to make GRUB be the
>> chain loader.
>>
>> Is there a way to install FC without this structure, in other words,
>> with a / directory and a swap partition?
> 
> My experience is that most modern kernels come with LVM as an add-on kernel 
> mod.  This, coupled with dynamic initrd-generation (both SuSE and Ubuntu have 
> this, I would assume FC might) provides all you need.

I'll look for this.  I want this to happen from a SuSE 9.1 install which 
may be too old.  In the meantime, I just forced / and swap partitions 
and installed FC into those and it is working.  But I'd like the 
flexibility to open the LVM from outside.



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Tony Alfrey
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