partitioning new installation

[James Knott]

Tim Writer wrote:
> James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> writes:
> 
>> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 08:45:47PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
>>>> What other partitions can't be on LVM?
>>> The only thing can't be on LVM is the kernel and initrd files, since
>>> once those are loaded and start executing, they can setup LVM access and
>>> even / can be mounted from LVM.  So that is the only requirement.
>> And that means only /boot cannot be on LVM, as Fraser mentioned.  A
>> while ago, I tried moving /etc/ to an LVM partition and I couldn't boot
>> the computer, until I restored it.  However, this was done after the
>> system was running with /etc in a non-LVM partition.  I suppose it would
>> have worked, had I installed it that way.
> 
> Probably not. In general, /etc must be part of the / file system. Otherwise
> init (/sbin/init) won't be able to read its configuration file (/etc/inittab)
> until after /etc has been mounted. Since, init is responsibe for starting the
> init scripts which check and mount file systems, you have a chicken and egg
> problem.
> 

I have a spare system here.  I'll have to give it a try and see what
happens.


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