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lvm emergency boot disks

From: Markku Kolkka <markku.kolkka@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: LVM over software RAID
Date: 26 Nov 2002 15:35:18 +0200
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scott@_nospam_scottsavarese.com writes:
> Last I heard you were not able to put /boot on an LVM volume. Is that still
> the case? 

Yes.
 
> Also, have you tried making your / volume and LVM volume as well. When I
> did the setup using slackware I was told that it is a bad idea since
> most emergency boot disks don't have lvm support and you will not have
> access to your data.

The Red Hat 8 install disc rescue mode supports / in LVM.

-- 
        Markku Kolkka
        markku.kolkka@iki.fi
 

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