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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS
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Dale wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
> :-) :-)
>
More progress.
root@fireball / # ls -al /dev/mapper/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Apr 8 15:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4400 Apr 8 15:56 ..
crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 236 Apr 8 04:39 control
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 8 15:56 sdb--vg-test -> ../dm-0
root@fireball / # pvdisplay
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdb
VG Name sdb-vg
PV Size 232.83 GiB / not usable 2.58 MiB
Allocatable yes
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 59604
Free PE 46804
Allocated PE 12800
PV UUID kopUKm-lXy1-7tiq-FuQ2-Xhs5-tGqN-Ls4R1v
root@fireball / # vgdisplay
--- Volume group ---
VG Name sdb-vg
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 2
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 1
Open LV 0
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 232.83 GiB
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 59604
Alloc PE / Size 12800 / 50.00 GiB
Free PE / Size 46804 / 182.83 GiB
VG UUID 5OSiWZ-rWza-uKJ2-rVMO-f38G-NBHx-dmAE1K
root@fireball / # lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/sdb-vg/test
VG Name sdb-vg
LV UUID mixhOb-La6D-BwG4-Uz3l-P0ci-oGg5-YI3mN8
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 50.00 GiB
Current LE 12800
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 254:0
root@fireball / #
I'm still trying to figure out how the naming part works tho. Now to
mount it and put something on it. See if it works.
Let me know if something doesn't look right. Otherwise, I'll keep
playing around with it.
Dale
:-) :-)