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Apparently, though unproven, at 18:25 on Friday 08 April 2011, Dale did opine |
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> I'm going to give this a stab here. I go buy a new drive. I use cfdisk |
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> to make it ready for LVM, the 8E thingy. |
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Yes |
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> I then tell LVM to make it a |
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> Physical Volume, either in whole or in part. |
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Yes |
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> I then tell LVM to make it |
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> a Volume Group |
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No. |
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You add the PV to a Volume Group (which will be created if necessary) |
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> and if I already had a drive using LVM I could then add |
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> the new drive to it. |
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Yes. |
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> After that, I create Logical Volumes and put file |
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> systems on it for use sort of like the old partitions. |
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Yes. Once you have made the LV, you then do this: |
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mkfs /dev/mapper/<whatever> |
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instead of |
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mkfs /dev/sda1 |
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The kernel sees /dev/mapper/<whatever> as just another block device (aka |
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something it can mkfs) |
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> Am I sort of getting on the right track? |
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Spot on |
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> Did someone mention a GUI for this? ^-^ |
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Piffle. GUIs for LVM confuse the issue. Stay away from them like the plague. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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