mick crane wrote: > I'll want to make an extended partition of the whole disk first with > fdisk. > but not sure the order I need to do things in after that. > Can see what VG is called with "vgdisplay" > will "vgextend my_VG /dev/sdx1" > sort out making the Physical Volume and the Logical Volume ? > I don't want to end up making 2 Volume Groups or something daft. > Is there any difference making the ext4 filesystem on the /dev/VG/LV or > /dev/sdx1 ?
you create first physical -> group -> logical volume and format. you can also extend a logical group https://wiki.debian.org/LVM
