Fedora Core formalism

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>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.

I've used LVM an various flavors of Linux at least as old as SuSE 9.0 Pro.

Bill
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