You're saying to make one volume that takes up the whole disk? Then why
bother with LVM?

On 3/26/07, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote:
>
> If you don't know what to do with it, then def. use LVM. So, I'd do
> this:
>
> 1. Insert drive
> 2. fdisk as LVM
> 3. pvcreate /dev/sdX
> 4. vgcreate VolGroupXX /dev/sdX
> 5. lvcreate -n MyVolXX VolGroupXX -L 100GB
> 6. mkfs.ext3 /dev/VolGroupXX/MyVolXX
> 7. mount /dev/VolGroupXX/MyVolXX /home/shared
>
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> Monday, March 26, 2007, 1:46:03 PM, you wrote:
>
> > This is the first time I've ever dabbled with multiple drives in
> > Linux, and I don't know what to do. Where should I mount it? If I
> > mount it as a subdirectory of my home, then it's mine. What if
> > someone else wants to use it? I thought about something like
> > /var/storage, and I did that, but then I had permission problems
> > (because root mounted it, so root owned it). If I tried to 777 it,
> > it only went to 755. I couldn't chown or chgrp it either. I thought
> > reformatting the drive as vfat might solve the permission issues, but it
> did not.
>
> > sudo chown joe /var/storage
> > operation not permitted.
>
> > sudo chown joe ~/hdb1
> > operation not permitted.
>
> > So what do I do? What filesystem should I use?
>
> > And yes, for future use, I'll throw an entry in fstab, I was just using
> mount for now.
>
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