Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-12 Thread Neil T . Dantam
At Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:54:41 +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > > > Reboot the box after installing LVM. > > > > Ah, a reboot has lvcreate working properly, thank you. > > This is good to know. However, this should all be triggered > when the package is initially installed. Agree that "turning

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-12 Thread Neil T . Dantam
At Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:54:41 +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > > > Reboot the box after installing LVM. > > > > Ah, a reboot has lvcreate working properly, thank you. > > This is good to know. However, this should all be triggered > when the package is initially installed. Agree that "turning

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-11 Thread Neil T . Dantam
At Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:15:54 +, Chris Davies wrote: > > Reboot the box after installing LVM. Ah, a reboot has lvcreate working properly, thank you. > Based on my empirical sample of two, there's some dependency that I > haven't tracked - and I must admit thought it was related to my weird >

LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-10 Thread Neil T . Dantam
Hi, I'm having an issue (not quite a problem) creating LVM logical volumes. It seems that the way device files and symlinks are created has changed between Squeeze and Wheezy (or I have some bad configuration). Old (working) Behavior -- Performing an `lvcreate -L10G -nLV

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-10 Thread Neil T . Dantam
At Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:09:36 -0600, Charles Blair wrote: > >I am trying to set up a dual-boot windows 7 / wheezy. Can you install grub2 to the MBR and have it boot both debian and MSWindows? This worked fine to dual-boot WinXP. > As I understand it, / must be bootable, which seems to mean it