Bob S said the following on 02/19/2010 10:28 PM:
You seem to like LVM, so I have a question for you. Do you dual or multiple boot diffferent OS's? Why? I do. Way back when, when LVM became popular I installed an early SuSE (don't remember which) I used LVM and it seemed to work very nicely. About two OS's versions later I went to install again and tried to use LVM. The partitioning setup was a nightmare. LVM wanted to include stuff from the older version in it's makeup and whatever I tried to configure with partitions I could not resolve it. Scared the bejeebers out of me. Too long ago to remember the details. So I used a regular partitioning setup and did not look back.
Now, maybe it was my ignorance on not knowing how to do it. But !! So the question remains. Do you dual or multiple boot successfully using exclusively LVM ?
No and ... sort of yes. No I don't do dual boot out of LVM. I left, as was mentioned on another thread, a Windows partition on my HP laptop, but I never seem to use it. I always intended to find some way to use it under a Virtual Machine, but there was never a simple way to tell the VirtualBox GUI to use an existing Windows ... I keep saying that when I have a machine with four times as much memory and five times as much disk .... There is spare space on the laptop's VM partition, but I'm not sure its enough. I think part of your problem might have been in the sharing of certain old partitions. I'd be reluctant to share more than /home and /tmp What would it take? Some fiddling with Grub - I don't know enough grub-hacking. Putting a /boot in the LVM? Hmm. Beyond my experience. Yes I had problems not unlike those you describe when I first worked with Linux LVM. I'd spent years with AIX and HP/UX and their LVMs and was delighted when I saw a LVM for Linux. And it was awful. Oh, it worked, provided you did what the original designer intended, which I promptly exceeded since I was familiar with "Big Iron" LVM and had different expectations and vision. But I eventually lived with those limits and rejoiced when LVM2 came out. After that I converted all my machines the LVM and have had no LVM problems at all. When disks have begun to die I've used LVM to painlessly mirror to the new (bigger, cheaper) drive. That was a joy. LVM isn't RAID but it does great job of mirroring! I use LVM to do snapshot backups. I'm very happy with LVM. LVM2 that is. There is an almost "yes" in that when I moved from Mandriva to openSuse it was on a machine running LVM2 and there were no LVM problems. I did keep the Mandriva partition around just in case but I never ran the machine as dual-boot. The change to openSuse went well, better in fact than some Mandriva upgrades! So I didn't keep the old Mandriva partition and never worked on a dual boot. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Right now I don't have a spare machine and a span of time to experiment. And I have other priorities. And I have no inclination to run multiple ... Oh, wait! Maybe run 11.2 with 11.1 Maybe. But I'm not going to be bleeding edge about this. If anyone has I'd like to discuss it. -- The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org