Don't do it. Keep your root file system as plain vanilla ext3, and move other things to LVM (using ext3 as well): /home /opt /tmp /usr /var
You really, really, don't want to have to fix LVM to get your system up an running if it ever comes to that. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Romanowski, John (OFT) Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 12:05 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Any caveats moving root filesystem to LVM? Anyone have experiences moving root file system to Logical Volume Manager (LVM)? We run SLES8 under VM on S390 with Linux guests cloned from a 2-dasd (3390mod3's) linux image with "/" on one pack and /usr on the other pack. I'd like more flexibility to use the free disk space from each pack as a global pool of free space so I'm evaluating converting the existing Linux file systems to LVM with root file system in LVM. I'm comfortable on how to create the logical volumes and copy the existing Linux file systems into it, but I'm not clear on how the LVM-based Linux will boot up and how I'd "rescue" such systems later if needed. -snip- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
