|
[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]
|
Re: [PLUG] Your recommendations
|
> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:36:00 -0500
> From: Matthew Rosewarne <mrosewarne@inoutbox.com>
>
> On Saturday 15 November 2008, JP Vossen wrote:
> > > Physical volume = vg_{hostname}
>
> To nit-pick, that's a volume group, not to be confused with a
physical > volume.
Yup, sorry about that. At least I got the vg_ prefix right... :-)
> With GRUB 2, there is no longer a need for a separate /boot partition,
> as GRUB 2 can load the kernel directly from an LV.
Cool, but is anyone actually using GRUB2 yet? OP said Ubuntu, and my
Ubuntu 8.10 has:
$ grub --version
grub (GNU GRUB 0.97)
> You don't have to specify extents, you should be able to specify
> sizes (i.e. "10G" or "512M").
That's news to me, does that work (yet) in the Ubuntu alternate CD?
I'll have to try it.
Later,
JP
----------------------------|:::======|-------------------------------
JP Vossen, CISSP |:::======| jp{at}jpsdomain{dot}org
My Account, My Opinions |=========| http://www.jpsdomain.org/
----------------------------|=========|-------------------------------
"Microsoft Tax" = the additional hardware & yearly fees for the add-on
software required to protect Windows from its own poorly designed and
implemented self, while the overhead incidentally flattens Moore's Law.
___________________________________________________________________________
Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org
Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce
General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
|
|