-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks!
That worked beautifully :) Keith Andrew Cilia wrote: > The sequence of creating a LVM is usually the following: > > 1) fdisking the disk in question and creating partitions. In your > case you may opt to create one hdb1 which will occupy the entire > disk > > 2) Creating a physical volume using the pvcreate against hdb1 > > 3) Running a vgscan so that the LVM subsystem knows what physical > volumes are around > > 4) Create a volume group. Give it a name (such as kvvolgroup) with > /dev/hdb1 > > vgcreate kvvolgroup /dev/hdb1 > > 5) You then have to create a logical volume over kvvolgroup using > lvcreate. If you leave thing defaulted, you'll end up with a device > called /dev/kvvolgroup/lvol00 > > 6) It's this lvol00 which you have to mkfs against and add to your > fstab. For example: > > /dev/kvvolgroup/lvol00 /home ext3 defaults 1 > 2 > > The key commands that you have to look into are > > fdisk pvcreate vgscan vgcreate lvcreate mkfs > > Hope that's enough to get you started. > > Cheers > > > > On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 22:13 +0200, Keith Vassallo wrote: > > Hey guys, > > I'm setting up a system with LVM for the first time and I need to > figure some stuff out. > > I have two drives on my machine. One of them (/dev/hdb) is > currently the only physical drive in my LVM group. The other drive > /dev/hda contains the OS and all the other stuff. > > Now, what I'd like to do is to mount /home on my LVM. Here is my > current /etc/fstab: > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> > <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc > /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 / > ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda5 none > swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 > udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 > /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 > > (I have attached it just in case it looks messed up in the e-mail). > > > As you can see, /dev/hdb is currently not mapped to anything. How > would I go about putting /home onto the LVM? Do I need to re-format > and install? > > Thanks, > > Keith plain text document attachment (part_table) # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCwBwoym3HAdrlsyERApp0AJ9TbQ+O7RQVO6zyeJUZ+TMTrCJgEACfY0qD 0+PEnd+IYiIpTEi7ZCUntxY= =WFj+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
