On Fri, April 8, 2011 11:01 pm, Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: >> >> >> root@fireball / # pvcreate /dev/sdb >> Physical volume "/dev/sdb" successfully created >> root@fireball / # >> >> Step one done. It didn't puke on my keyboard. lol >> >> Now to see what else I can get into. Not going to put anything >> important on it tho. Just a temporary thing right now. Just getting >> my feet wet. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> > > More progress. > > root@fireball / # ls -al /dev/mapper/ > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Apr 8 15:56 . > drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4400 Apr 8 15:56 .. > crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 236 Apr 8 04:39 control > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 8 15:56 sdb--vg-test -> ../dm-0
Looks good :) > root@fireball / # pvdisplay > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/sdb > VG Name sdb-vg > PV Size 232.83 GiB / not usable 2.58 MiB > Allocatable yes > PE Size 4.00 MiB > Total PE 59604 > Free PE 46804 > Allocated PE 12800 > PV UUID kopUKm-lXy1-7tiq-FuQ2-Xhs5-tGqN-Ls4R1v Looks fine > root@fireball / # vgdisplay > --- Volume group --- > VG Name sdb-vg > System ID > Format lvm2 > Metadata Areas 1 > Metadata Sequence No 2 > VG Access read/write > VG Status resizable > MAX LV 0 > Cur LV 1 > Open LV 0 > Max PV 0 > Cur PV 1 > Act PV 1 > VG Size 232.83 GiB > PE Size 4.00 MiB > Total PE 59604 > Alloc PE / Size 12800 / 50.00 GiB > Free PE / Size 46804 / 182.83 GiB > VG UUID 5OSiWZ-rWza-uKJ2-rVMO-f38G-NBHx-dmAE1K Looks ok, 50GB of 232.83 assigned > root@fireball / # lvdisplay > --- Logical volume --- > LV Name /dev/sdb-vg/test > VG Name sdb-vg > LV UUID mixhOb-La6D-BwG4-Uz3l-P0ci-oGg5-YI3mN8 > LV Write Access read/write > LV Status available > # open 0 > LV Size 50.00 GiB > Current LE 12800 > Segments 1 > Allocation inherit > Read ahead sectors auto > - currently set to 256 > Block device 254:0 Here is the 50GB... > root@fireball / # > > I'm still trying to figure out how the naming part works tho. Now to > mount it and put something on it. See if it works. Naming part, there are 2 ways of finding it. 1: /dev/<VolumeGroupName>/<LogicalVolumeName> 2: /dev/mapper/<VolumeGroupName>-<LogicalVolumeName> You included a "-" in your VG-name, this is replaced with "--" under /dev/mapper/ > Let me know if something doesn't look right. Otherwise, I'll keep > playing around with it. Looks fine so far, don't forget to put a filesystem on "/dev/sdb-vg/test" to be able to mount it somewhere :) -- Joost
