Root logical volume Vs Boot logical volume

[Sanjeev gupta_2]

what is difference between Root logical volume Vs Boot logical volume

[Patrick Wallek]

Root LV = / (Can be VxFS)
Boot LV = /stand - the location of the vmunix file which is the kernel. (Must be HFS on PA RISC machines)

[Michael Tully]

The basic difference is that the boot lv, is where the running/booting kernel resides. (/stand/vmunix /dev/vg00/lvol1) The root lv is where the remaining programs reside to start the system. (/ /dev/vg00/lvol3)
You also have the primary swap partition which assists in starting the system (/dev/vg00/lvol2)
All three volumes are strict/contiguous logical extents on the booting disk.

[Thomas Bianco]

Root is your file system root (specifically mounted to /). this must be mounted first.

Boot is your kernel filesystem, (/stand on HPUX and a few others, /boot on linux i think) and contains the kernel image that must be loaded to get the system into a running state. boot can also contain information to get the system up to a state where init can take over.

if i am not mistaken /etc must reside on the root fs, so init can take over and mount the other filesystems and start deamons, etc...

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi,
See suppose you have VG00 Root Volume Group:
Then the structure is like this ==>

Root LV: / Filesystem /dev/vg00/lvol3
Swap: Raw File system /dev/vg00/lvol2
BootVolume: /stand Filesystem /dev/vg00/lvol1

Regards,