On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 01:51:53PM +0000, Luciano Rocha wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 08:46:41AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Luciano Rocha wrote:
But I do use the hostname as the VG, so I think that's best, probably with current date appended (like: hostname080320).
That doesn't sound particularly unique to me. If you set up a dual/multi boot machine you'll probably want it to have the same hostname regardless of the boot choice, and you are likely to install the whole thing in the same day.
I wasn't talking of changing the hostname to include the date, but of changing the VG to include the hostname *and* the date.
Sorry, I didn't parse your message correctly.
Usually, you'd want to use the same VG for both installs. Otherwise, the VG name will have to include a sequential number, and then be dependent of installing with any other VG available.
Then we'd have: hostnameYYMMDDseqseq
The bigger it gets, the uglier it gets, but I don't see a solution besides forcing the definition of the name by the user. That way, at least the fault would reside completely with the user. ;)
VolGroup00/LogVol00 just isn't pretty, useful or conflict-free.