[TriLUG] LVM Experts

Alan Porter porter at trilug.org
Thu Mar 12 17:22:53 EDT 2009


> As to those who mentioned renaming the known VG, this can cause
> problems if your root is on that VG since the name tends to end up
> hard-coded in your initrd. Then again, it may just be
> redhat/fedora/rpath (the latter of which being what I am actually
> familiar with, and loosely based on the former).

Ubuntu (and I assume Debian) systems use UUID's in the fstab and
initramfs/initrd.
This conveniently avoids a lot of problems like this.

Alan







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