[arch-general] Arch on SSD!

[Mauro Santos]

On 22-10-2012 03:51, John Hutchison wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 02:11:23AM +0100, nailz wrote:
>> but should the LVM partition be marked as ext4 in fstab?
> 
> According to few sources (gentoo wiki, linuxconfig.org) on how fstab
> should be: they have the LVM volumes labeled as ext4 (or whatever the 
> actual fs is) but the mountpoint is not /dev/sdx#, rather it uses the
> lvm dev mapping, or however you call it:
> 
> from http://linuxconfig.org/Linux_lvm_-_Logical_Volume_Manager:
>> /dev/mynew_vg/vol01 /home/foobar/ ext3 yadda yadda
> 
> from http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LVM#.2Fetc.2Ffstab:
>> /dev/vg0/lvol1  /mnt/data  ext4  noatime  0 2
> 

Or better yet, use UUID, I've been using UUIDs for a long time and they
never failed me, while every once in a while I see people with problem
when using /dev/sd*, I don't recall seeing people with problems when
using lvm though, maybe those know what they are doing a lot better :p

> So whatever Andrea called their virtual group is what it must be set to.
> If you go to the Archwiki, it uses 'VolGroup00' as the volume group.
> 
> Use vgdisplay to figure out the volume group name.
> 
> Note: I do not use LVM myself, so please keep that in mind. This is just
> from my cursory research
> 
> 
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