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 1Q8Ipf-00081Q-VD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:03:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0F3D1C005; Fri, 8 Apr 2011 21:01:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C05191C005 for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2011 21:01:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwj20 with SMTP id 20so2070531gwj.40 for ; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:01:18 -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=MlcEvo+NH0E9qnWM/TWxRr0tLdPjPlgY0QkvY8KwmCA=; b=gEBomiyGWbeUqtlHk4YQIrMIYOB2q31UBERM6Fx5cD3eG+RRDwwFMd0W6M6/cRE6xa k2MBwazvPymBIbJyEdyoGCLXPXZegPXgscQ0ro7w1cfpQkYlyWYqbh4+LtH4dinTPZit k6KZRsZxrF/c+DzDaEEKYW6lkpUU/pc7vCKkA= 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=GIVfNOSDl9aBLPrp7MXyE9nknk47WDrweGI7ItcDjMXR4p1twS7iAQY4ThVBe84XAR q1TV9cVBafo8A7r6Xo1PdwUerb5+8RoOAXBdn7tJEGjXdqCEMqYGJenYpANJpdMluciT SVdPZaEhdW1cvmQAf6jmJ0Pp+6XIWWYMl+uPo= Received: by 10.91.34.26 with SMTP id m26mr2491996agj.140.1302296478083; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:01:18 -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 c18sm3318401ana.27.2011.04.08.14.01.16 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:01:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D9F779B.2040801@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:01:15 -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> <4D9F5C5F.7030700@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D9F5C5F.7030700@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 00015a48158ac376d8cfa581b26de32e 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 :-) :-)