Re: [Cooker] Attn. Brian: root on LVM works, just tested

2001-09-08 Thread Blue Lizard
hey gc, on your people.mandrakesoft page you have no link for rpmmon or anything related to it other than a tutorial in which i saw no place to d/l or code to write...you were the first to announce it so i assume it was your little project. pop it in the distro :). @localhost$ google

Re: [Cooker] Attn. Brian: root on LVM works, just tested

2001-09-08 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: I did not know what it does. Besides, I suspect that for LVM you can't use device numbers, you have to use real names. Numbers are assigned dynamically when volume group is configured; if we rely on vgscan it may find another VG first, so minor number will be wrong.

Re: [Cooker] Attn. Brian: root on LVM works, just tested

2001-09-08 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Blue Lizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hey gc, on your people.mandrakesoft page you have no link for rpmmon or anything related to it other than a tutorial in which i saw no place to well 1- previous 10 times i talked about it, i've put the exact url 2- the link is small (four letters) but

Re: [Cooker] Attn. Brian: root on LVM works, just tested

2001-09-08 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Borsenkow Andrej [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] 3. You cannot shutdown root volume but that's probably just cosmetic (warning on shutdown). May be sensible to filter root VG from shutdown. is the initrd getting umounted gracefully? What initrd? I speak about LV with root

Re: [Cooker] Attn. Brian: root on LVM works, just tested

2001-09-08 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Borsenkow Andrej [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I thought, I try it with new mkinitrd and new way how it handles devfs (Chmouel, what is this magic handledevfs in nash? What it does - or, rpmmon would have told you to ask me, not chmouel, the question. [gc@bi ~] rpmmon -p mkinitrd gc better,

Re: [Cooker] Attn. Brian: root on LVM works, just tested

2001-09-08 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: So it works, that's it? Yes. There is a patch to adapt the size of the initrd to what's inside. Wasn't it enough? I did not know about it. It was quick'n'dirty just to see if it possible. Why have you quoted mkrootdev? I did not know what it does.

Re: [Cooker] Attn. Brian: root on LVM works, just tested

2001-09-08 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Borsenkow Andrej [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Why have you quoted mkrootdev? I did not know what it does. Besides, I suspect that for LVM you can't use device numbers, you have to use real names. Numbers are assigned dynamically when volume group is configured; if we rely on