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 1Q8Bws-0003Wo-Ao for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:42:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D81E51C007; Fri, 8 Apr 2011 13:40:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A92581C007 for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2011 13:40:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxm8 with SMTP id 8so2116941yxm.40 for ; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 06:40:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=h4bIlB0NGgg4ZaKuTIw2/OuBd9AM42gqWBMWsWuM+VY=; b=m65bzYo7iUHVijnLhccG1pFWDEIQNSLjZLKNiSLoBbh1wCvheifvxgdOvOV9yOEZ77 H/dvLWbIoLveC7rXvIfMR8aEo+oDIvBiwErFffGys0XKnY37pVGuRWoXJpGVvYxKxV6u w2b27hGCoqER4nM9MqfRWYd5aSlyYTihjIpaQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jwhYYxXTnRPQhuIvB0zXG9L3hJmKDg9u9lhTedUBhxFL2CzJ5CGv3sflB1QH3TM+Dy raB1+DA4+X2SY1LmqpTaM6Z5V4A/VQn4iIZVrAwJeXBGYwmqzoyKa88LahlKBqvtMiwM VzkI8cMpo2L2LPLfXvEvddF8RtLd7ll8R/RkI= Received: by 10.91.69.4 with SMTP id w4mr1942082agk.173.1302270020995; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 06:40:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-118-199.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.118.199]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c21sm2953198anc.14.2011.04.08.06.40.19 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 08 Apr 2011 06:40:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D9F1042.6060102@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:40:18 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.18) Gecko/20110325 Gentoo/2.0.13 SeaMonkey/2.0.13 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS References: <4D9D9071.2050504@gmail.com> <319ad2ea44eec3e9f8794ef5c49ae633.squirrel@www.antarean.org> <737858.5131.qm@web39309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20110407193817.738333ABD@data.antarean.org> <4D9EE6B3.6070409@gmail.com> <20110408122655.5a12882b@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110408122655.5a12882b@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: df684407ddf889bbfdc6da2b96a194e5 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:42:59 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> Little light bulb here. physical volume is the same as a physical >> drive? If I understand it correctly, it is the whole thing >> unpartitioned. >> > No. A physical volume is an area of disk. It can be the whole disk but it > more usually a partition. > > Ooooh. Still some progress tho. lol So, if I was going to use LVM, I create a partition first, either whole drive or part of it then use LVM on that? Then comes in the rest of the stuff that I am still trying to get a grip on. This reminds me of catching a catfish. It's slimy and hard to get a grip on. lol Dale :-) :-)