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/Talk:User Guide/Disks and Partitions
From AnnvixAFAIK, all the required LVM user-space tools are available and work in Annvix (the file server I setup for the church I attend is running 2.0-RELEASE (installed as 1.2-RELEASE) and is using LVM across 4 drives). It may not be typical, but I suppose it's as typical in Annvix as it would be on any other Linux distro. -- vdanen There are a couple of things that I think make it less typical on Annvix than other distributions, in particular Red Hat based distributions. Fedora, CentOS and RHEL all have GUI tools for configuration during installation and Fedora actually uses LVM by default. The initrd generated by these systems is capable of booting from a non-LVM boot partition but from then on using the entire root filesystem and any other partitions from LVM. Building a system to do this requires that LVM be built into the kernel and also that the initrd has some script that activates the LVM partitions before searching for the root system. Does Annvix have this built into it's initrd and kernel already, and if not, could it be? I think it would be awesome to write a tutorial or help page on doing it, but I don't plan to. -- Ancientt 11:56, 7 August 2007 (MDT) Everything should be thereEverything should be there to do it. The initrd can handle lvm, and I believe the installer can as well. It doesn't do it by default, and there's no GUI of course, but all the bits should be there. IIRC, I tested lvm support at install a year or so ago and from what I recall it worked just fine, although it is manual (however, so is everything else when it comes to disk layout, etc.). |
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