[TriLUG] LVM2 on a new gentoo system

[Owen Berry]

Take a look at this discussion thread. Seems like you are not the only
one that's had this problem.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/70700

Owen

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 21:00, Peter Long wrote:
> Owen Berry wrote:
> > Peter,
> > 
> > I'm using LVM (not LVM2) on Gentoo and set everything up at install
> > time. I fumbled my way through a combination of the standard
> > installation instructions and an LVM installation guide for Gentoo
> > (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm.xml).
> > 
> > My /, /boot and swap partitions are not on LVM, to assist in recovery.
> > This was really useful to me as I stuffed things up at least once during
> > the install, but was able to recover and fix things using a LiveCD. I'm
> > sure it'll be useful at some stage down the road as well. The author of
> > the above document makes similar recommendations.
> > 
> > Owen
> 
> Well, after following the advice I received on the list I finally have 
> gentoo booting and using LVM2. Thanks a lot!
> 
> However I have noticed something odd:
> 
> petelong at herb petelong $ mount
> /dev/hde3 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)
> /dev/hde3 on / type ext2 (rw,noatime)
> <snip>
> 
> My root partition which is ext3 is mounted twice. Once as ext3 and once 
> as ext2. According to my /etc/fstab entry it should be ext3:
> 
> /dev/hde3   /    ext3   noatime                 0 0
> 
> I suspect that it is mounted as ext2 by grub or the kernel at boot time. 
>     Does anyone know how to get rid of the extra mount of the root file 
> system?
> 
> --
> Peter Long