Instructions for LVM?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 06:24:34PM -0400, Tony Abou-Assaleh wrote:
> I got my problem solved, it seems. I was using an older IDE cable on which
> HDDs worked fine if accessed only one at a time (either master or slave),
> but didn't with a RAID boot .. weird.
> 
> Anyway, I found, experimentally, that putting /boot on LVM on a RAID
> partition slows down the system boot by about 10 folds. So right now I
> have /boot on its own and / and swam are on LVM on RAID. The system is
> fairly slow .. a lot slower than when using the Ubuntu live CD. I think I
> will try reinstalling with swap on it's own.
> 
> BTW, is there a need to use LVM for /? E.g., can I have /boot and swap on
> their own and then / on RAID 1 but without LVM?

You can just make md0 be / and md1 be the LVM.  Nothing wrong with that.

Do not EVER put two harddisks on one cable in the same raid by the way.
Not sure how yours is set up.

Len Sorensen
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