On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 06:43:51PM -0600, Timothy Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Chad C. Walstrom wrote:
> 
> > Short answer, you can't do it from Potato install disks.  However, you
> > can do it the long way.
> 
> <rest of Chewie's response snipped>
> 
> So is the usual way of getting an LVM system to put it on new disks after
> the initial install? Is this easier on other distributions of Linux?
> 
> I guess I'm wondering what others do when they want to use LVM.

They hack it in.  Face it.  LVM isn't mainstream yet.  It's only stock
as of Linux 2.4 and it's still evolving.  Every new version of LVM
requires a kernel patch and an upgrade to the tools, just like
ReiserFS.  You're playing with relatively young code.  Mature enough
to run in production, yes, but young none the less.

The fact of the matter is that installing Linux isn't the easiest
thing to do, and if you want nose-bleed technology, you've got to
bring along the kleenix and bear through it.  Besides, there are a
number of packages already out there, even for the newest betas.  Join
the list, explain what you want to do, and get the answers right from
the horses mouth.  With a little work, your system can look a little
like this:

Linux skuld 2.4.0 #1 Sat Jan 13 19:32:49 CST 2001 i586 unknown

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             121M   49M   66M  43% /
/dev/sda1              30M  5.4M   23M  19% /boot
/dev/vg01/lv_usr      2.0G  1.6G  359M  82% /usr
/dev/vg01/lv_usr_local
                      786M  627M  118M  85% /usr/local
/dev/vg01/lv_home     3.0G  2.4G  451M  85% /home
/dev/vg01/lv_var     1008M  428M  529M  45% /var
/dev/vg01/lv_tmp      248M   46k  235M   1% /tmp

Good luck finding a distro, if that's really the selection criteria
you wish to use.  Frankly, I would put a little elbow grease into the
installation process if the maintenance is fairly painless, rather
than the other way around.

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Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net>                 | a.k.a. ^chewie
http://www.wookimus.net/                            | s.k.a. gunnarr
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