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,
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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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org