partitioning new installation

[James Knott]

James Knott wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
>> Tim Writer wrote:
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> I just installed SUSE 10 again, with all but /boot on LVM partitions.
> It appears OK so far.

One thing I've noticed, is that it's easy to increase a partition size,
but not decrease.  When I try to decrease a partition size, using Yast
LVM in SUSE 10, it complains about editing a mounted drive.  No such
complaints about increasing the size of the same partition.

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