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Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 schrieb ext Remy Blank: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > Why do you make such a big deal of not using LVM? It achieves |
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> > everything you want to, and more, without the compromises. |
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> There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need to |
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> have an initrd (or initramfs). |
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There is no need to have an initramfs unless you put / on an LV. |
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> From what I remember, this has always |
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> required manually copying some utilities like the LVM tools to the |
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> initrd (or writing a script that does it), and remembering to do it |
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> every time I update one of the tools, and not to forget copying all |
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> required libraries as well, and so on. |
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I could send you a script. And no, it doesn't harm if you forget to update |
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the stuff in the initramfs. |
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> OTOH, I have stopped looking at solutions that need an initrd quite some |
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> time ago, so things might be easier nowadays. How do you manage your |
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> initrd? |
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With a simple self written script that copies the needed tools to a |
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directory used by the kernel build. |
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> Do you even need one? |
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Yes, I do. Because I have / on a logical volume which may (in case of a |
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laptop) also be encrypted. |
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> And from what I remember, you can't resize a mounted ext3 partition |
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You should refresh your memory, then :-) Those times are long over. |
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> But I'd love to be proven wrong on all the points above! |
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Done (partly) :-) |
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> This would |
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> certainly motivate me to look into LVM seriously this time. |
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Do it right, then - use EVMS *SCNR* |
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> It really seems to be the right solution to the various problems I have |
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> seen with static partitions. |
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It doesn't just seem so. It is. |
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Bye... |
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Dirk |
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