Something simple re: a new partition under lvm.

2013-08-19 Thread Bill Case
Hi; There used to be a gui for lvm commands. It seems to have disappeared. I have browsed the man pages. It seems to involve more risk and learning than I want at the moment. What I want to do is simple. I have a freshly installed Fedor 19 on a 500 Gig drive. Anaconda install lvm. I want to

Re: Something simple re: a new partition under lvm.

2013-08-19 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 19.08.2013 22:34, Bill Case wrote: Hi; There used to be a gui for lvm commands. It seems to have disappeared. I have browsed the man pages. It seems to involve more risk and learning than I want at the moment. What I want to do is simple. I have a freshly installed Fedor 19 on a

Re: Something simple re: a new partition under lvm.

2013-08-19 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:59:46PM +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: pvscan, pvscreate, vgscan, vgcreate, lvscan, lvcreate These days, vgcreate followed by lvcreate is sufficient. - vgcreate automatically performs pvcreate if it needs to - scans shouldn't normally be needed Alasdair --

Re: Something simple re: a new partition under lvm.

2013-08-19 Thread Javier Perez
I think there are some conceptual issues that you should understand and I do not feel you are clear on them yet. (Or maybe I am the one not clear) First of all, there is no last 50Gb on a LLV scheme. When you create and use LLV, you are surrendering disk management to the LLV manager in exchange

Re: Something simple re: a new partition under lvm.

2013-08-19 Thread Bill Case
On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 20:15 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: I think there are some conceptual issues that you should understand and I do not feel you are clear on them yet. (Or maybe I am the one not clear) First of all, there is no last 50Gb on a LLV scheme. When you create and use LLV, you are