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neyuru
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 Posted: Wed May 20, 2020 7:09 pm Post subject: /home partition with LVM [SOLVED] |
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When creating a separate partition for the /home directory, it is generally straightforward to include the PARTUUID in fstab so that the directory is seen when the system is booting up. But when you want to combine two or more partitions from different physical disks for hosting the /home directory a solution might be to use LVM to combine all partitions into one logical volume.
I have seen in several websites that PARTUUID's for LV aren't recognized (in the sense that placing a line in fstab would make the directory visible to the system). Is this true? If so, how could a logical volume (created by two or more partitions using LVM) be used to host the /home directory and still be visible to the system?
many thanks!
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neyuru,
You use the filesystem UUID in /etc/fstab
| blkid: | | /dev/mapper/vg-home: UUID="8d5d5691-ceb7-4e58-bed3-28803cb88bfe" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" |
There is no PARTUUID for a logical volume.
| /etc/fstab: | | UUID=8d5d5691-ceb7-4e58-bed3-28803cb88bfe /home ext4 noatime 1 2 |
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neyuru
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| Posted: Wed May 20, 2020 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks!
I gather, the cleanest solution is to create the home partition during installation (which I don't mind, I am still testing*), place the line in fstab and the system will take care of the rest, right? (automatically detecting and mounting /home in the specified UUID given in fstab)
*PS I have installed Gentoo in physical machines close to 7 times already since I first started over a month ago  |
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neyuru,
Yes. Partition the way you want to during the install and put your filesystem tree together the way you like it.
Then untar the stage3, so everything goes in the right places.
If you have the space, its trivial to add more volumes to the filesystem tree. Well, until you run out of connectors to add more HDD :)
You rarely need to reinstall Gentoo as its usually possible to get from where you are to where you want to be.
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In my opinion using UUID's doesn't make sense when using LVM.
The use-case for UUID's is to be able to find the right partition when the device names a dynamic. In LVM you already have static device names, either /dev/<vg name>/<lv name> and/or /dev/mapper/<vg name>-<lv name>. On all my machines where i use LVM i always refer to those device names in fstab, they are available right after the "lvm" initscript has been run.
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neyuru
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| I made an attempt at using UUIDs in fstab in a clean installation. The bootloader correctly found the root partition (e.g. the command line root=UUID=XXX-YYY-ZZZ was appended to the bootloader and correctly started the boot process) but then the boot process complained about not finding the swap. I double checked the UUIDs but I had to revert back to using PARTUUIDs. I had to write everything in PARTUUIDs as only writing it for the swap partition didn't helped. |
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neyuru
How does PARTUUID work with a logical volume?
My logical volumes don't have a PARTUUID reported by blkid.
| Code: | /dev/mapper/vg-usr: UUID="7f0fad34-6130-42d8-8246-033de9717005" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/vg-local: UUID="54b46458-d411-4ea8-8920-4c5fcdb56a81" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/vg-tmp: UUID="59c06fd1-8471-4efb-b055-8f1cfb39645f" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/vg-var: UUID="57b34894-f80d-47ab-a522-46fb6e1a19b8" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/dm-4: UUID="e41a94cc-0817-449f-8ac8-f3055d33879c" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/vg-portage: UUID="8675cb9c-4251-489f-8e9b-0244ca80176c" BLOCK_SIZE="1024" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/mapper/vg-home: UUID="8d5d5691-ceb7-4e58-bed3-28803cb88bfe" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/static-root: UUID="cf559dbe-81bb-45b7-bbdd-0bcdc81e066b" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/static-usr: UUID="24e36648-f410-40b8-931f-41ad46741a47" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/static-var: UUID="1c981da8-f0f6-4953-b485-8dbc9e7c6879" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/static-local: UUID="17457b1b-ce7f-4452-93d6-4ffbdc04eddb" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/static-opt: UUID="c486b7cc-6df4-4a55-8add-0691db3bbc02" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/static-portage: UUID="350c56dc-7519-47e4-9cea-ef0bb23bdbb0" BLOCK_SIZE="1024" TYPE="ext4" |
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neyuru
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | neyuru
How does PARTUUID work with a logical volume? |
Sorry, I didn't explained myself correctly. I meant that I did another clean install (that's my hobby nowadays ) and gentoo didn't pass the boot phase. What I was trying to do was to test UUID's before installing LVM and as that failed I never installed LVM. |
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| I've determined the problem. My bootloader (systemd-boot) does not recognize UUIDs. I've changed to UUIDs all my partitions in fstab and I can correctly boot into my GUI. But I have to place a root=PARTUUID=XXX-YYY-ZZZ command line option to pass to the kernel in systemd-boot to boot correctly. |
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neyuru,
Thank you. You have two separate issues tangled up there.
When the system boots, it has to be told where the root filesystem is separately to /etc/fstab. As /etc/fstab is on the root filesystem, it can't be read until root is mounted.
Hence the root= on the kernel command line.
There are lots of ways to specify the location of the root filesystem but only two work without an initrd. That's PARTUUID and /dev/... where /dev is a real block device.
I see from the kernel help that LVM may work there but that's new and I've not tried it.
Filesystem UUID, LABEL and root on a Logical Volume all require the use of the user space mount command.
That forces the use of an initrd so you have some user space before root is mounted.
None of this is anything to do with the boot loader.
The boot loader loads the kernel, optionally the initrd, leaves the kernel command line for the kernel to find than jumps to the start address of the kernel.
Now its just the kernel and optional initrd to mount root so that boot can continue.
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neyuru
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| Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2020 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: |
There are lots of ways to specify the location of the root filesystem but only two work without an initrd. That's PARTUUID and /dev/... where /dev is a real block device.
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If only I knew that I could've saved a few minutes of testing 
As all things you've got to do it if you want to learn it...
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