Bug 53135 – Livecd: add lvm2

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Philippe Trottier (RETIRED) 2004-06-06 08:34:13 UTC]

Because of the enoumous amount of driver partitions on Apple's drives and the fact that many new machines are now SATA (max of 15 partitions)... lvm2 is maybe the only escape route left, to have these features:

-1 Installed OSX
-1 swap
-2 root (one for daily use , one for testing new Gentoo releases)
-1 Separate home (so you don't need to move stuff around when updrading)
-1 boot to keep all the kernels around a central place
-1 bootstrap for Newworld

That's 7 partitions, then add all the Apple junk and 128M of free space just in case mister OSX wants some extra drivers. and you are way over 15.

with lvm it allows you to keep sane.

Example with lvm2:
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/dev/hda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                     63 @ 1         ( 31.5k)  Partition map
/dev/hda2          Apple_Driver43 Macintosh                 56 @ 64        ( 28.0k)  Driver 4.3
/dev/hda3          Apple_Driver43 Macintosh                 56 @ 120       ( 28.0k)  Driver 4.3
/dev/hda4        Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh                 56 @ 176       ( 28.0k)  Unknown
/dev/hda5        Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh                 56 @ 232       ( 28.0k)  Unknown
/dev/hda6          Apple_FWDriver Macintosh                512 @ 288       (256.0k)  Unknown
/dev/hda7      Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh                512 @ 800       (256.0k)  Unknown
/dev/hda8           Apple_Patches Patch Partition          512 @ 1312      (256.0k)  Unknown
/dev/hda9         Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap               1600 @ 1824      (800.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
/dev/hda10        Apple_UNIX_SVR2 boot                  524288 @ 3424      (256.0M)  Linux native
/dev/hda11              Apple_HFS OSX                 20971520 @ 527712    ( 10.0G)  HFS
/dev/hda12        Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root1               31457280 @ 21499232  ( 15.0G)  Linux native
/dev/hda13        Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root2               31457280 @ 52956512  ( 15.0G)  Linux native
/dev/hda14        Apple_UNIX_SVR2 lvm2                32796448 @ 84413792  ( 15.6G)  Linux native

[Comment 1 Philippe Trottier (RETIRED) 2004-06-06 08:36:26 UTC]

Should I create a separate bug for PPC64 ?

[Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2004-06-06 11:58:55 UTC]

well, hold off on the separate bug for now -- let's see what the two teams make of the request first.

[Comment 3 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) 2004-08-19 12:57:51 UTC]

It's possible to add this to the livecd, but we are probably unable to test reliably (lacking systems we can repartition). 

I can have a look for 2004.3.

[Comment 4 Philippe Trottier (RETIRED) 2004-08-20 01:34:32 UTC]

For what it's worth I have both of my ppc since(2004.1) and ppc64(since2004.2) system running lvm2, swap and home directory are on lvm2.

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-09-09 08:22:10 UTC]

Actually, we should be doing this for all arches to have proper support.

[Comment 6 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-10-09 12:16:03 UTC]

We have been including lvm2 in the template for a while.  Is there any reason why it isn't on the 2004.2 release?

[Comment 7 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-10-15 23:59:50 UTC]

This is definitely in the x86 spec files.

Pieter: if you can add this to the PPC release, we can consider this one RESOLVED.

[Comment 8 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) 2004-10-21 12:43:04 UTC]

verified for 2004.3

[Comment 9 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-25 11:24:39 UTC]

Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux".

I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers,
this is the only reasonable way to do this.