Fedora Core formalism

[Tony Alfrey]

Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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.

I see LVM on the SuSE disk.  I'll see if I can figure out if it is 1 or 
2 and if the LVM that Fedora installs is 1 or 2.



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Tony Alfrey
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