[Gllug] still wondering about lvm

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 00:52 +0000, Nix wrote:

> 
> Because VGs contain a pool of space which *may or may not* be allocated
> to LVs, and those LVs *may or may not* be mounted (and may not even be
> mountable: e.g. invalid snapshot volumes), and the mounted filesystems
> *may or may not* be visible by the current process (although currently
> most processes can see the same filesystem tree, this is not necessarily
> the case).
> 

Yes, I understand that point now :) PITA though cos I have to go down to
single user and this box lives in a corner of my living room with
nothing more attached to it than a printer and a CAT5 cable :( 



> -- 
> `Come now, you should know that whenever you plan the duration of your
>  unplanned downtime, you should add in padding for random management
>  freakouts.'

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