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On Sunday 22 March 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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> > The point is that LVM adds an extra layer of complexity. |
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> > I used LVM paired with soft RAID, and when I needed to boot from a |
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> > liveCD I discovered that I had to rebuild the setup by hand. |
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> You mean the 1 extra command that's needed to assemble a VG? |
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It wasn't that easy, that's what I did in the end: |
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1) vgchange -a n |
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2) vgexport -a |
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3) vgimport -a |
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4) vgscan --mknodes |
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5) vgchange -a y |
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Maybe 4) and 5) alone would do the trick... I don't remember which |
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livecd I used then, except for the fact that I had to reboot |
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with "dolvm2" option; now I have a tested "first aid kit" with notes on |
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paper (all my notes were on those discs at the time) with well known |
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and proven liveCDs. |
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When I have to resize/redesign my partitions I simply find easier rsync |
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plus a reboot. |
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I rsync the live system while I use it, than reboot to a liveCD to rsync |
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the file changed meanwhile (to minimize downtime). So I shortly tossed |
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LVM and since I live happily without. |
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Ciao |
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Francesco |
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Linux Version 2.6.28-gentoo-r3, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 8 |
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12:38:59 CET 2009 |
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Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4018.04 Bogomips Total |
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aemaeth |
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