LVM and install over existing installation

2009-03-11 Thread Tim Anstey
Hi, I've recently acquired a cheap dedicated server for testing purposes which was shipped was CentOS, not my preferred distro. To resolve this I intend to install Debian from within the existing install as documented in the Debian installation guide. Now, this has always worked well in the past

Re: LVM and install over existing installation

2009-03-11 Thread randall
Tim Anstey wrote: Hi, I've recently acquired a cheap dedicated server for testing purposes which was shipped was CentOS, not my preferred distro. To resolve this I intend to install Debian from within the existing install as documented in the Debian installation guide. Now, this has always

Re: LVM and install over existing installation

2009-03-11 Thread Tim Anstey
Ah, so if I see this right, I can configure LVM and treat it as I would any other partition. So say I had this: --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 I could treat that exactly the same as /dev/hdax? If so that's awfully helpful, I assumed LVM relied on

Re: LVM and install over existing installation

2009-03-11 Thread randall
Tim Anstey wrote: Ah, so if I see this right, I can configure LVM and treat it as I would any other partition. So say I had this: --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 I could treat that exactly the same as /dev/hdax? yes, you can mount

Re: LVM and install over existing installation

2009-03-11 Thread Tim Anstey
Fantastic. Thanks for all of your assistance.