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Re: Believing what you read (was Re: Good fdisk Practices)

From: Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty(at)porchlight.ca>
Date: Fri Aug 24 2007 - 20:30:57 EDT

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 06:55:09PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 08/24/07 16:24, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> I read recently on this list that LVM is not portable across CPU
> >
> > Don't believe everything you read.
>
> That's why I qualified my statement.
>
> I think it was Doug Tutty who reported here that he had LVM problems
> when upgrading to AMD64.
>

Not that I recall; but then again I have a bad memory. Don't make work, but if you find the link for such a message from me I'd like to review it.

My Athlon64 uses SATA and all my other boxes use PATA so I've never moved a drive from one to the other.

I use routinely the raid1/boot, raid1/LVM combos for the system directories with plain LVM on normal partitions for /home. When I get into video editing, I plan to put /var/tmp (or whatever) on a striped LV.

I'm also a big fan of LVM for my old boxes. Old boxes have old drives. So far, the old drives have given some pre-failure warnings (non-SMART) in syslog before the filesystem gets corrupted. Its nice to be able to add a drive to the system and migrate the data, without needing to keep two drives in the box for raid1. Also, no two of my PATA drives are the same size.

The only problem with installing that I've had consistently is that GRUB doesn't end up on the disk. I think I've tracked it down to the partitioner forgetting that I've set up the /boot partition whenever I set up something else. My recent re-install of my Athlon64 box (wanted to change from JFS back to ext3) took me 4 hours just to get the partitioner to work right; I had to keep starting the install over. Luckily, I have CD-bin1.iso since I'm on dialup.

Thanks,

Doug.

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