Ok I understand... I looked at the how-to manual I have followed all in there When I re-ipl... The lvm is gone..added to fstab.. What else is missing....
> -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Thornton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 3:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: LVM under Debian > > On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 14:08, Noll, Ralph wrote: > > Whenever we load SUSE 8.x under z/vm we get the option to setup an > > lvm At install time > > > > Debian doesn't seem to have that.. > > > > We can only load Debian on physical devices at install time > and add an > > Lvm later. > > > > Would like to be able have certain sys dirs > (/var.../usr..etc) On an > > lvm at install time, because these directories can Be difficult to > > move from a physical device to a logical device Once the operating > > system is up and running... > > > > Been able to accomplish that with SUSE.. Haven't figured > out howto on > > Debian Or if it is even possible..... > > Woody definitely doesn't let you do a Debian install to an LVM. > > It's not at all clear whether that support will go into the > Sarge installer or not. My guess is (for S/390 anyway), not. > A lot of people (mostly in the x86 world) want it, but > getting the installer to do it right, in the general case, is > surprisingly tricky. Cross-platform partition management is > a really hard problem; parted helps a lot, but it's not clear > that it's going to be stable enough to make work in time for > the Sarge release. > > As I package Sarge for an S/390 release, I'll take a look at > what LVM support in the installer would take, but I would > certainly not count on it. > > For the time being: do a basic (no task) installation. > Apt-get the LVM tools. Create your LVM partitions, mount > them where they should go, copy the old filesystem data to > them, and edit /etc/fstab (if you're doing this with /usr > then you'll need to go single-user, etc...). After you have > the system coming up with the filesystems on the right LVM > devices, *then* run tasksel to load it up with all the > software you want. > > Adam > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access > instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the > message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
