jdd said the following on 01/28/2012 02:44 PM:
Le 28/01/2012 14:15, Anton Aylward a écrit :
decades ago) there are practical problems, but I've found LVM gets around most of them.
lvm makes it very difficult to repair a damaged partition table and if any of the involved partition fails, all the system is lost
Not really. If you are talking about the partition table manipulated by fdisk then you just set it back to the whole disk being a LVM ... you did tun it that way didn't you? if not, why not? The there's /etc/lvm/lvm.conf /etc/lvm/archive /etc/lvm/backup which you should have read about in the LVM man page. Actually, its simple enough to run a pvscan. But regardless - its about backups. Speaking form experience, I've been able to recover supposedly trashed drives where the partition table has been corrupted ONLY because the drive had LVM rather than conventional partitioning. Sorry, experience of doing it trumps 'they said it can't be done' every time. Having another machine on which you can read the man page and go google helps, of course :-) I carried out the repairs using the lvmtools running on a LiveCD. Yes this was to a openSuse system. Of course it helps that I knew from my written notes (you do keep a log book, don't you?) that I had a 150M /boot partition then the rest of the drive as LVM. Of course if you don't keep backups (and of your lvm config) and don't keep written activity and design decision logs then I can't be held responsible for what you are unable to do, even though I *can* do. Please: I get a bit pizzed-0off when people tell me that its not possible to do something that I have already done. -- "Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools." -- Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org