On Wednesday, August 30, 2017 10:56:44 PM ray wrote: > Thank you. This is an interesting way to store the broken system. It will > be like a junk yard that I can copy out of. > > Partitioning will be a challenge. Currently, this is laptop runs LVM. I > have two groups. The system is on one, the other I plan on using for VM > storage. I could break the one for VMs into groups for file systems. I > am not sure how to use this. Once I have these different groups, if I > want to rebuild, I will need to have the new system installed to one of > the unused VGs. I have a quandary about this each time I rebuild, I have > a challenge with the Debian installer on where to put the new system. It > seem like I rebuild the LVM each time which means I would wipe out the > previous system.
You're welcome! I don't / have never used LVM, but I thought that at least in some scenarios, you created partitions and then installed LVM somehow on top of those partitions. I assume that, if you create one more partition, you could just leave it out of LVM? Maybe someone else can advise you.
