Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2035 mails)

[Bob S <911@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 09 September 2007 14:30, Peter Sjoberg wrote:

> On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 00:49 -0400, Bob S wrote:
> > Hello SuSE people,

.<snip a bunch>................

> I love lvm since it's so flexible, if you for example run low in space
> in datalv you can just expand it without playing around with disk
> partitions (=much safer) and you can even add a new disk and expand it
> without problem. If I need to replace a disk with a bigger one/remove
> one I can use a single "pvmove /dev/hdb" to move data around and get it
> done without tons of repartition and fs moves.

OK, but I have a question;

When I installed 10.0 I used LVM for everything except /swap and /.  When I 
went to install 10.2 I was going to use LVM again, but when I looked at the 
partitioner it seemed to want put my 10.2 partitions with the old 10.0 stuff 
under /system2, That worried me. How could I have a homelv for 10.0 and a 
homelv for 10.2? (relying on memory here which isn't as good as it used to 
be) How would the 10.0 os and the 10.2 os sort it out. Soooo, I just resorted 
to a regular partitioning scheme for 10.2 
>
> One thing is that since /boot and /boot/grub/menu.lst is common for all
> installs you need to manually manage that area. I found that each os
> version have there own version numbering like
> vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.5-default/initrd-2.6.18.8-0.5-default so there is no
> conflict

Ummm,,, that would be the kernel version, so it wouldn't be right if the 
kernel were upgraded, right? When I upgraded the kernel in 10.2 I lost the 
ability to boot 10.0. I attributed it to that but I didn't look into it 
because 10.2 was working well. Guess I would have to reinstall 10.0 or find 
the proper kernel and install it.

> but they normally replace /boot/grub/menu.lst so I make sure I 
> have a copy of menu.lst somewhere and then I manually merge the old and
> new menu.lst after each install.

So you must have both kernel versions on your system. I don't like the 
automated update of the kernel because it replaces it rather than adding the 
new kernel and you end up with only the one kernel. Way back when.... I would 
download a kernel and manually install it. That way I would have more than 
one kernel to fall back on. I guess I will start keeping a copy of Menu.1st 
also.
>
> > Anxiously awaiting the final 10.3 so I can try Compiz-Fusion, Beryl
> > whatever and be able to fall back to 10.2 when I screw it up.
>
> I'm also waiting for 10.3 final but you can do as me and start playing
> with Beta 3 to get a feel for it and report problems (or you may have to
> report same problem on the final because everyone assumed someone else
> already tested and reported it)

Welllll.....I will, as soon as I free up the space on my drive which I screwed 
up by improperly partitioning it.  Thanks for your input.

Bob S.
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