On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Paul E Condon wrote: > I want to allocate several large blank files on HD, > and make them into virtual hard disk which I mount > using loop. > > I then want to treat them as 'physical volumes' under > LVM, and collect them into a single volume group. > > Then, I intend to define a few larger logical volumes > on this 'volume group'. I do this because I want to > store large files on a HD whose hardware interface > limits file sizes to 4Gb, and I want to store larger > files than 4Gb. ( The HD has 500Gb total capacity.)
Maybe I'm missing something here, but how is the hardware interface stopping you from writing files larger than 4G? That's just something I haven't ran into. How is the drive formatted now? Can't you just format the drive with ext3 or something else that supports large files? I don't think that LVM is going to solve your problem here though. Jeff -- 8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Techno. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org