Fedora Core formalism

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007, Net Llama! wrote:
>On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
...
>>> 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.
>
>Yes, but was that lvm(1) or lvm2?  They are not backwards compatible 
>AFAIK.

Most likely LVM.  The only time I've used LVM seriously was on a
laptop that had two 2GB partitions that I wanted to combine into
a 4GB partition large enough to handle things, and I didn't want
to try fiddling the partition table for fear that I would totally
hose things.

I have been surprised to find some backwards compatibility, to
wit, then I installed SuSE 9.0 Pro on a machine, replacing
Caldera OpenLinux 2.3, and a software RAID array in an external
chassis was detected without any action on my part.

I tend to replace machines rather than attempt to update in
place, copying data to the new machine, as this is generally
safer and allows me to be sure that everthing's in order before
decommissioning the old machine.  It also tends towards cleaner
installations as things can get pretty messy on a machine that's
been in use for many years where things have ``just growed''.

Bill
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