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From: Terje Kvernes <terjekv@××××××××.no>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] documenting using LVM during the install.
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 20:37:51
Message-Id: wxxn0rw6ccx.fsf@nommo.uio.no
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] documenting using LVM during the install. by Jon Nelson
1 Jon Nelson <jnelson@×××××××.net> writes:
2
3 > Terje Kvernes <terjekv@××××××××.no> wrote:
4 >
5 > > I'm currently writing some documentation with regards to
6 > > installing Gentoo using LVM, and I wondered if people would like
7 > > me to produce it as an additional document or as a part of
8 > > build.xml. the steps that would be touched are partitions (like
9 > > mentioning 8e as the type) and the lvm-commands themselves. also
10 > > the copying of /etc/lvmtab to /mnt/gentoo/etc/lvmtab, which I
11 > > forgot last time, and which _really_ cost me a lot of grief.
12 > >
13 > > I am _not_ going to go into having / (or /boot) on a PV (ie, they
14 > > will be normal partitions). I honestly never saw the big point,
15 > > and it is too much hassle when it breaks. besides, I don't want
16 > > to document initrd with friends, especially as I don't use them
17 > > myself.
18 >
19 > Agree with you 100% -- just let me know privately and I'll help if I
20 > can -- I've run LVM for quite some time now, and am familiar with
21 > using it as well.
22
23 it'll be a seperate file, I'm rather sure about that. for a teaser:
24
25 <url: http://terje.kvernes.no/lvm.html >
26
27 --
28 Terje

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