You must not understand LVM. :) There are some good resources about LVM on the web I think. You can read docs on any implementation, ranging from the one on AIX to Linux. The concept is the same everywhere.
--- 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, 2:06:04 PM, you wrote: > 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 >
