That's what a rescue disk is for. Much simpler than breaking out and maintaining different partitions on your system.
-- Kyle Gonzales Sent from my mobile On Apr 2, 2011, at 3:37 PM, "William L. Thomson Jr." <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 15:26 -0400, Kyle Gonzales wrote: >> Interesting. Default RHEL install since v4 puts all those on LVM2. >> The advice given might be a little paranoid and the cause of needless >> complexity. > > Keep in mind RH goes out of their way to ensure things don't break. > After all your paying for that with RHEL :) > > Breakage occurs in the FOSS world all the time. While I haven't run into > said problems with mounting lvm volumes, its not a chance I want to take > either. Then again a simple tweak of a config file could cause your lvm > partitions to go undetected just the same ;) > > Like the filter directive, snippet from /etc/lvm/lvm.conf > > "A filter that tells LVM2 to only use a restricted set of devices." > > A couple examples that would not see other drives or lvm volumes on them > > sata/scsi > filter = [ "a|/dev/sd[abcd]|", "r/.*/" ] > > HP raid arrays > filter = [ "a|/dev/cciss/c0d0p|", "r/.*/" ] > > -- > William L. Thomson Jr. > Obsidian-Studios, Inc. > http://www.obsidian-studios.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
