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 1Q8H1d-0000iw-Ra for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:07:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0FED2E02CB; Fri, 8 Apr 2011 19:05:06 +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 D4BD4E02CB for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2011 19:05:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxm8 with SMTP id 8so2286364yxm.40 for ; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:05:06 -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=vnnHtX0DaUleV0it6VIhriFWZB5/vbpMBSL39Igz5Xw=; b=TrD8b6U9D8YOJ/R4GTtLoUD72IKswSCVBYJ1820ea37M7cBlFz7byhhr63l/nmRKTU YaHIdMklRqguNgcMwkb0BzY6Avr+N9aFQLj6hd8fj3FrW2ps8MdOVAG+ZMd86BTqvFzp 13kULD7mgtwxhmT4NFGnfGOH6PGxnzQ8E50dk= 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=gt/kYK0LjUpLqd+CrSMAJPfCZwSBc/PMCyXjTf20lXRZI9MHWfBsmVrM1Vu3rqMGhQ hAGhWDkIZ2Qz0nxbRThXqkTf0YuiLLGtAKh4dy01xObylwcmg2iBgZn6FwuVGHEgPjbT ufyfn9nr916phlC3OWIwrYCu2hF4AVX8cFxUM= Received: by 10.150.73.20 with SMTP id v20mr2226079yba.368.1302289506303; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:05:06 -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 f2sm1565070ybh.22.2011.04.08.12.05.04 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:05:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D9F5C5F.7030700@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:05:03 -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> <201104081846.47629.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4D9F485D.2010300@gmail.com> <201104082038.21497.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201104082038.21497.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e63211d2c3f33f2dac63d3299210b9fc Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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 > > > root@fireball / # pvcreate /dev/sdb Physical volume "/dev/sdb" successfully created root@fireball / # Step one done. It didn't puke on my keyboard. lol Now to see what else I can get into. Not going to put anything important on it tho. Just a temporary thing right now. Just getting my feet wet. Dale :-) :-)