On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 20:56:34 +1100 David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> However I am unsure why this was asked for. > If you are not already using LVM [1] on your system > then I would expect the 'lvs' command output to be blank. M. Ozlem's original questions was, could one add another disk to a debian system. Someone suggested using LVM. Someone else asked for the output of the command sudo lvs M. Ozlem has had problems finding lvs in order to run it. My guess is that M. Ozlem is fairly new at Linux/Unix, and missed several cues most of us would have picked up on. One of them is that if the lvm2 package isn't installed, M. Ozlem would get a complaint that his OS couldn't find it. That complaint would tell most of us that he didn't have LVM installed, and therefore using LVM to expand his system would be problematic, probably requiring re-installation. M. Ozlem didn't report this complaint, but instead asked which package it was in, which started this side-line of emails. I replied with the output of apt-file indicating the package M. Ozlem would have to install in order to get the program lvs. I made the mistake of figuring that M. Ozlem would read closely the output I provided. I also made the mistake of figuring that getting lvs installed would help solve the problem. I later realized that getting lvs installed would be irrelevant: the fact that it is not installed tells us what we needed to know: M. Ozlem isn't running LVM, so the solution to the problem is not simply to expand the current volume group (VG) onto the new hard drive. There is no current VG to expand. So where do we go from here? -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/