Samy, The Distributions Redbook covers what you need to do in a step-by-step process in Chapter 17.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Rengasamy, Samy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 3:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to pre-allocate a 4GB File? I believe I would at least need 2 free dasdpacks to get 4+ GB with LVM. What are the steps to activate this 2 packs as LVM pack? I have to add these 2 at /etc/lvmtab. Should I have to specify any parameter in /etc/fstab at all? Thanks, Samy Rengasamy. -----Original Message----- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 12:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to pre-allocate a 4GB File? Samy, SuSE 7.0 has LVM support built into it. Red Hat 7.2 does not. For RAID support, take a look at http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?LINUX-VM.22398 and http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Rengasamy, Samy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 1:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to pre-allocate a 4GB File? Do I have to upgrade to 2.4 kernel to run LVM? How can I build software RAID-O? Thanks, Samy Rengasamy. -----Original Message----- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 10:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to pre-allocate a 4GB File? Samy, You'll need to be running a 2.4 kernel, and either LVM, or RAID to aggregate multiple 3390 volumes, or have some 3390-9 volumes available. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Rengasamy, Samy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 6:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to pre-allocate a 4GB File? How to pre-allocate a 4GB File in a system with several 2.3 GB dasds? We're looking for a way to be able to create a single file slightly larger than 4Gbytes (to test some logic in the code which has been known to break on ports where seek offsets go over 32-bits). Or is the largest file we can ever make around 2.3Gbytes ? Thanks, Samy Rengasamy.
