[lug] help needed with LVM situation

User Dan Ferris dan at usrsbin.com
Wed Jun 13 18:08:03 MDT 2007


Be careful, knoppix only got LVM support recently, and it might have only 
LVM v 2.

Dan

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Nate Duehr wrote:

> Lee Woodworth wrote:
>
>> I wouldn't physically install a second LVM physical volume (PV) unless
>> you know the volume groups (VG) in the existing PVs and the other drive
>> don't have the same volume group names. It might not be fatal, but LVM
>> is unlikely to successfully start a duplicate VG.
>
> Yeah, we already know the VG's are all named the same.  The joys of default 
> installer settings.  (The installers would be better off to name them 
> something like [hostname]_vg00 instead of just vg00 in the defaults.  Oh 
> well.)
>
> I like the Knoppix idea.  I didn't even thing of a live-CD distro at 1AM last 
> night.
>
> Nate
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