From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8GbK-0005Fa-LR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:40:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78FD6E04D2; Fri, 8 Apr 2011 18:38:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23660E04D2 for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2011 18:38:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so4690630wyi.40 for ; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:38:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=YOkvKZOJ5uq0BmWb931JpMn2ShAPOdYUzizmoXc6Reo=; b=jchj2j7S3y96tVt5tRBjCFsxqgfhuKp2grYhxeGwGBGZ624hEf5UTLMXvtyKdnOvU8 lhy/LulWBDj86OHNrrvLZ/jOVx75EfcCuILbJfhkcgvM9GQxxa23XE8At60fnbzEW2Ih AJNhh/4V750Idhj0lX4N0zSUBafIz5nIGmO6s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=r/h++IwgU4V/25CsOZmOcvP03nwSszsV2Jx3be5zewj7GWS+dR4gyp+nuwe9UMzsA0 TRfJbLw57SXLhZE9shAdlNxut97Zfxfgf9MxTnUk5SkWuYEvqGC/7EIGoKBbUFK71b7b 9ZgYgZpf2QHfQ6BHfabVUDP4G99HaONeEijIo= Received: by 10.216.60.76 with SMTP id t54mr2158858wec.110.1302287918343; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:38:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-19-231.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.19.231]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d59sm1492057wed.21.2011.04.08.11.38.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:38:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 20:38:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.38-ck; KDE/4.6.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <4D9D9071.2050504@gmail.com> <201104081846.47629.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4D9F485D.2010300@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D9F485D.2010300@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201104082038.21497.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c9fe5f90cb9ce8d3058cfaf1ea3a9a31 Apparently, though unproven, at 19:39 on Friday 08 April 2011, Dale did opine thusly: [snip] > Yea, I didn't type that in the way I meant it. PV is the bottom level, > then VG goes on top of that then the LV. I think I am typing that in > right. Basically, I create the PV first, then the VG then the LV. < > scratches head a bit> I think I get it but may need better wording. Nah, you got it already ;-) > > The kernel sees /dev/mapper/ as just another block device (aka > > something it can mkfs) > > So when I get ready to make a file system, say ext3, then it would be > mkfs.ext3 /dev/mapper/. Then it would be ready to put stuff on. Yup. You'll have to poke around /dev/ a bit to see how your udev does it today but you got the gist of it -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com