On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:37:06AM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote: Content-Description: message body text > > Hi, > > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've played with LVM on HP-UX, but only just enough to get a firm > > handle on the fact that I don't understand the complexities of it, > > and that is easy to screw up, but hard to fix :-) > > > > So, I find myself building a Debian MytTV machine. In addition > > to the 40G root drive, I installed 2 other drives, a 60G (/dev/hdb), > > and a 120G (/dev/hdd). > > > > What I want to do is create one large "virtual disk" out of these, > > then I will then create a XFS filesystem on and use to store various > > multimedia files for mythtv. I want the disks to be "striped" if > > that is possible with different size disks? > > > > I've installed the lvm (1) packages, and I've read the HOWTO. > > Here is what I came up with: > > > > fdisk both disks, creating a single partition on each one of type 8e > > > > pvcreate /dev/hdb1 > > pvcreate /dev/hdd1 > > > > vgcreate mythtv /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdd1 > > > > And then I should be ready to create a filesystem on this "virtual > > disk". > > Not quite. You need to run > > lvcreate -L <size> -n <name> <vgname> > e.g. > lvcreate -L 180 GB -n lvol1 mythtv >
Well, that did not go as well as expected :-( The 2 pvcreates worked fine, but the vgcreate reurned an error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # vgcreate mythtv /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdd1 vgcreate -- INFO: using default physical extent size 32 MB vgcreate -- INFO: maximum logical volume size is 2 Terabyte vgcreate -- ERROR "lvm_tab_read(): size" inserting volume group "mythtv" into "/etc/lvmtab" What do I need to do now? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]