[Gllug] Partioning advice needed

Mike Brodbelt mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk
Sun Feb 18 00:45:05 UTC 2007


Nix wrote:
> On 15 Feb 2007, Mike Brodbelt outgrape:
>> When I partition disks these days, they tend to get split into /boot,
>> and "the rest", where the latter just gets shoved under LVM and carved
>> up from there.
> 
> Why not LVM /boot as well? In the wonderful world of initramfs, booting
> from that is no harder than booting from a normal filesystem :)

One of my existing home systems is initramfs based (an earlier version
of your init script, in fact, with a uClibc based busybox/buildroot
environment). I didn't think when I built it that GRUB understood
filesystems within LVM on a RAID 1 set - can it handle these now?

Mike
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