>>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 3:04 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That seems to have done the trick. Now, when I do the cat /proc/partitions > command, I see the dasda and dasda1 listing for each volume.
Good. Does vgdisplay now show the volume group you created? If not, back to the partitioner to do that. > However, somehow I think I missed the part where it tells the system the > mount point for the volume group. How do I mount the group? I have already > created an empty directory in the root to act as a mount point. Well, you don't mount a volume group, you mount file systems. So, you need to back into the partitioner, go into the LVM dialog, and create one or more Logical Volumes, and put a file system on it (format it). If you don't have any specific requirements for what type of file system, I would recommend ext3 as a general all around decent choice. If you give it a mount point there, YaST will automatically update /etc/fstab so that I will be mounted the next time you reboot. I don't recall, but you may need to mount it manually the first time, after you exit YaST. > Sorry for these really basic questions, but I warned you I was a complete > beginner. Yes, you did, and that's not a problem. We like to coach complete beginners in this mailing list, as others did for us. > Part of my problem is terminology. I have ten years of experience > with Windows NT and its descendents, VM/370 and z/OS. -snip- > I have to keep reminding myself that when I see a term, like partition, > in Linux, it may or may not mean the same thing it does in Windows or some > other system. In the particular case you used for an example, there isn't a difference in what partition means. I do have a relatively short/simple terminology cross reference in the "Linux/390 System Management for Mainframe Systems Programmers" session I give. You can find it at http://linuxvm.org/Present/#share109 I repeat, it's rather short, but better than nothing. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
