<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Hello, I'm very interested in using LVM for the root partitions (I use Redhat 6.2) as I can do with IBM AIX. I would like to make a rootvg containing some LVs with /var /tmp /bin /usr /home for example, then make a datavg for SGBD, datas and so on. As I plan to update my production system running 2.2.16 to 2.4.0 as soon this new kernel is available, I did some tests with the new kernel-2.4.0.test2 and lvm-0.8final patched. It seems to work perfectly but I was unable to find a way to put rootvg under LVM. I understood that you use the initrd way to getting up your first VG but before that, how can you do to put /var /usr /sbin etc... under LVM. I mean, changing the filesystem tag (-> 0x8e) then creating PV, VG and LVs will distroy all datas on disk !! Is there any way to create LVs before installing my RH distribution ? Did I missed something ? Is there any documentation that could explain how to do this ? NB: LVM is integrated into my kernel and is not a module. Could you please help me on that subject ? Thank you in advance, PhiL <pre>----------------------------------------------------------------- _ ---- Linux 2.2.16 | Philippe Lefevre E-mail: ph.l@libertysurf.fr | =°) | | | /\\ | --------------------------------------------------------------- _\_V ---</pre> </html>