Re: Question about LVM and volume images on loop

2009-01-14 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:27:08AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Paul E Condon p...@mesanetworks.net wrote about 'Re: Question about LVM and volume images on loop': On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:33:46PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 2009

Re: Question about LVM and volume images on loop

2009-01-14 Thread Brian McKee
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Paul E Condon p...@mesanetworks.net wrote: I do this because I want to store large files on a HD whose hardware interface limits file sizes to 4Gb, and I want to store larger files than 4Gb. ( The HD has 500Gb total capacity.) As the others have pointed out -

Re: Question about LVM and volume images on loop SOLVED

2009-01-14 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:24:15AM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Paul E Condon p...@mesanetworks.net wrote: I do this because I want to store large files on a HD whose hardware interface limits file sizes to 4Gb, and I want to store larger files than 4Gb. (

Question about LVM and volume images on loop

2009-01-13 Thread Paul E Condon
I want to allocate several large blank files on HD, and make them into virtual hard disk which I mount using loop. I then want to treat them as 'physical volumes' under LVM, and collect them into a single volume group. Then, I intend to define a few larger logical volumes on this 'volume

Re: Question about LVM and volume images on loop

2009-01-13 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Paul E Condon wrote: I want to allocate several large blank files on HD, and make them into virtual hard disk which I mount using loop. I then want to treat them as 'physical volumes' under LVM, and collect them into a single volume group. Then, I intend to define a

Re: Question about LVM and volume images on loop

2009-01-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 2009 January 13 19:36:22 Paul E Condon wrote: I do this because I want to store large files on a HD whose hardware interface limits file sizes to 4Gb, and I want to store larger files than 4Gb. ( The HD has 500Gb total capacity.) HD hardware interfaces do not know where files begin and

Re: Question about LVM and volume images on loop

2009-01-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 06:08:05PM -0800, Jeff D wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Paul E Condon wrote: I want to allocate several large blank files on HD, and make them into virtual hard disk which I mount using loop. I then want to treat them as 'physical volumes' under LVM, and collect

Re: Question about LVM and volume images on loop

2009-01-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:33:46PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 2009 January 13 19:36:22 Paul E Condon wrote: I do this because I want to store large files on a HD whose hardware interface limits file sizes to 4Gb, and I want to store larger files than 4Gb. ( The HD has

Re: Question about LVM and volume images on loop

2009-01-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Paul E Condon p...@mesanetworks.net wrote about 'Re: Question about LVM and volume images on loop': On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:33:46PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 2009 January 13 19:36:22 Paul E Condon wrote: I do this because I want to store

Re: Question about LVM and volume images on loop

2009-01-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/13/09 23:18, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] Yes, it's not hardware. Truth is it's vfat. I have had difficulty with Western Digital USB HD when I try to reformat tham for ext3, and they special software from WD to rewrite the vfat format. ? Doesn't Debian see it as an sd device? What