Differences between version 14 and predecessor to the previous major change of LVMNotes.
Other diffs: Previous Revision, Previous Author, or view the Annotated Edit History
| Newer page: | version 14 | Last edited on Friday, July 1, 2005 5:35:51 pm | by MichaelBordignon | Revert |
| Older page: | version 11 | Last edited on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:49:45 am | by CraigBox | Revert |
@@ -10,9 +10,18 @@
At install time, create a small (<100mb) /boot, swap, and a reasonable (4-6gb) / partition. Leave the rest of the space unpartitioned.
Make sure LVM is compiled into your kernel, and you have the LVM tools installed. Debian 3 (woody): install lvm10. Debian Sarge/Sid: install lvm2.
-Gentoo has lvm (1.01) and lvm2.
+Gentoo has lvm (1.01) and lvm2. You may also need the device-mapper patch for 2.4.x kernels, available at ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/dm/. From the LVM2 README.Debian:
+
+ LVM2 requires the device-mapper kernel module (dm-mod). This is
+ available as a kernel patch for 2.4 (included as standard in
+ current Debian 2.4 kernels), and is distributed with linux 2.5 and above.
+
+Apply the patch with something like
+
+ # patch -p1 /path/device-mapper.1.01.03/patches/linux-2.4.28-pre4-devmapper-ioctl.patch
+
!Create a PV[1] partition on your drive
# fdisk /dev/sda
