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 > > --- > Puryear Information Technology, LLC > Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 > http://www.puryear-it.com > > Author: > "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" > "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" > > Download your free copies: > http://www.puryear-it.com/publications.htm > > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20070326/a6f221c0/attachment.html
