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From: David W. Hodgins on 4 Jan 2010 10:50 On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:30:59 -0500, Ohmster <root(a)dev.nul.invalid> wrote: > and files from. My original disk is VolGroup00 as an lvm disk and Fedora man vgrename. May need to edit /etc/fstab before rebooting, if it's still using /dev/mapper/??? entries, instead of labels or uuids. > will install to the new disk as VolGroup00 thus making it impossible for me I haven't used the fedora installer. I expect a little digging would show that you can override the volume group name. Regards, Dave Hodgins -- Change nomail.afraid.org to ody.ca to reply by email. (nomail.afraid.org has been set up specifically for use in usenet. Feel free to use it yourself.)
From: Dan C on 5 Jan 2010 09:00 On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:38:35 -0600, Ohmster wrote: > Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:bfa3981f-5d53-47e8- > 8bb8-45fbc8e58d73(a)e27g2000yqd.googlegroups.com: > >> Oh, dear gods. That explains it. I wish you'd mentioned using oddball >> repositories earlier. >> >> Cleaning up that kind of mess would take me a day, with good bandwidth, >> and I'd bill you for it if you needed it that badly. But you should be >> able to add the new disk, set it up with a live CD, set up LVM on the >> new disk with a different Volume and Group name, or use Fedora disks to >> *manually* configure disks and set them up appropriately. > > Nico, > > Hah! I did not see your offer in the begriming of this paragraph. Thank > you for the offer, that would be pretty neat, you clean it up remotely > with my cable connection and I pay for the service, but, to me, Linux is > about the learning. l love it because I learn new things. I just copied > the lvm man page to a text file so that I can read it more easily with a > list of all of the major lvm tools that I will be able to use. I also > found the FAQ at TLDP, LVM HOWTO, and found some good reasons to use lvm > in Chapter 2. What is Logical Volume Management?, Section 2.2. Benefits > of Logical Volume Management on a Small System actually makes good sense > and I will use this as a tool for my next install so that I know what > the heck I am doing this time and can name and create the volumes as > necessary, label them appropriately, and size them accordingly. I > especially like that you can move the space around if you need to or > even add another disk to the file system and it just blends right into > the file system as a whole and can then be doled out where it is needed > most, in more than one area if need be. This sure beats the old method > of splicing in a new drive under "\home" like I used to do. > > Maybe lvm is not so bad, once you get to understand it and use it > properly. Oh and thanks for the cleanup offer. That was very generous as > a task like that might tale forever, even though you do know what you > are doing. What exactly is it that you do, that requires management of huge disk space? Why would you need LVM, or to "splice in a new drive" on a normal home system? Seriously, what are you saving? How much volume are you doing, anyway? -- "Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me". "Bother!" said Pooh, as he wiped the vomit from his chin. Usenet Improvement Project: http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/
From: Dan C on 6 Jan 2010 10:35
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:08:16 -0600, Ohmster wrote: > "J.O. Aho" <user(a)example.net> wrote in news:7qj012Fqa7U1 > @mid.individual.net: > >> IMHO ext3 suxx, just ext2 with journal added. >> >> -- >> >> //Aho > > I thought that the journal addition was a good thing. What do you like > Aho? It is a good thing. EXT3 is the right choice. -- "Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me". "Bother!" said Pooh, as he wiped the vomit from his chin. Usenet Improvement Project: http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/ |