Re: [PLUG] Logical volumes: use disk or partition?

2022-02-11 Thread Michael Ewan
By disappear I meant no longer visible, you have to do the vgscan and vgchange for the logical volumes to become visible. Some distro do this automatically for you. On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 12:20 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2022, Michael Ewan wrote: > > > The steps involved are

Re: [PLUG] Logical volumes: use disk or partition?

2022-02-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022, Michael Ewan wrote: The steps involved are pvcreate, vgscan, vgcreate, and lvcreate. The pvcreate operation labels the disks for use in a volume group. Do not use the UUID. The vgscan operation finds the pv labels. The vgcreate operation takes those disks and adds them to a

Re: [PLUG] Logical volumes: use disk or partition?

2022-02-11 Thread Michael Ewan
The steps involved are pvcreate, vgscan, vgcreate, and lvcreate. The pvcreate operation labels the disks for use in a volume group. Do not use the UUID. The vgscan operation finds the pv labels. The vgcreate operation takes those disks and adds them to a volume group. So... pvcreate /dev/sdc1

[PLUG] Logical volumes: use disk or partition?

2022-02-11 Thread Rich Shepard
Two of the disks in the MediaSonic Probox have been partitioned and had ext4 installed but are otherwise empty of data. Rather than having two separate disks for extra external storage I want to build a single LV. The LVM docs I've read use partitions on a single hdd. I did not explictly make a