Re: [arch-general] Arch on SSD!

2012-10-22 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 22.10.2012 12:57, schrieb Mauro Santos: > On 22-10-2012 10:57, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: >> I always use the form /dev/mapper/vg-lv, though. The /dev/vg/lv form >> sometimes isn't available in early boot. I think it depends of udev, and >> has >> certainly broken for me in the past. >> >> Pau

Re: [arch-general] Arch on SSD!

2012-10-22 Thread Mauro Santos
On 22-10-2012 10:57, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > I always use the form /dev/mapper/vg-lv, though. The /dev/vg/lv form > sometimes isn't available in early boot. I think it depends of udev, and has > certainly broken for me in the past. > > Paul > Would /dev/vg/lv be as reliable as /dev/mapper/

Re: [arch-general] Arch on SSD!

2012-10-22 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 22 Oct 2012 10:34:48 Mauro Santos wrote: > 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 thos

Re: [arch-general] Arch on SSD!

2012-10-22 Thread 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 whatev

Re: [arch-general] Arch on SSD!

2012-10-21 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 21/10/12||16:28, Andrea Crotti wrote: > I bought a crucial M4 (128GB) for my laptop, and now the idea is to move > the operating system and most of the data there, keeping the other disk > in the cd-bay as second disk. > > I formatted the SSD disk like this: > > Disk /dev/sda: 128.0 GB, 128035

Re: [arch-general] Arch on SSD!

2012-10-21 Thread John Hutchison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: [arch-general] Arch on SSD!

2012-10-21 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 21.10.2012 17:28, schrieb Andrea Crotti: > Where sda2 is a LVM volume, but the first thing which I'm not sure is if > I got the alignment correct. I didn't find anywhere what should be the > alignment for my disk, and a way to check that you actually got it > right (some ways only for Windows f

[arch-general] Arch on SSD!

2012-10-21 Thread Andrea Crotti
I bought a crucial M4 (128GB) for my laptop, and now the idea is to move the operating system and most of the data there, keeping the other disk in the cd-bay as second disk. I formatted the SSD disk like this: Disk /dev/sda: 128.0 GB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors Units = sectors of 1 *