On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 11:12, Ranga Nathan wrote:
> I had problems moving root file system to LVM. It has to be done with a
> lot of care. However, if you move /home /var  /local /opt etc to LVM, then
> there is much less reason for moving root fs to LVM. That is what I did.
> We run SLES9. I used Yast to do all LVM work, eventhough I knew how to do
> it from command line. I then did mkinitrd and zipl.
>

We do the same thing, except under SLES8.  Our root filesystems only
have 100MB (with 23MB used).  Our reason is, we just like one less layer
to repair in case of a corruption.

I'll have to try Yast2 the next time there's LVM work.

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