Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3182 mails)

["Adam Williams" <adamtaunowilliams@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > I create an LVM volume and mounted it as "/", but I would like to revert
> > it to it's original partition, I tried it from reverting from the LVM
> > gui, but it couldn't do it because "/" is mounted, is there any way to
> > do this, I am thinking safe mode or starting from disk, but I am not
> > sure how to do the reversion, any advice?
> I do't know how to solve this, but is a good practice to not mount / in LVM,

Nah,  all our systems have an LVM "/".  Works just fine.  Make a
100-250Mb /boot and LVM absolutely everything else.  I've had
filesystems go fritz but I've never had LVM bomb out,  and LVM is your
friend for recovering or changing systems.

> put / on a ext3 partition and then mount /var, /usr /home /srv or whatever you
> need on LVM, but don't mount /, it could give you problems with corrupt LVM
> images

And a corrupt /usr, /var, and /srv is fine?

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