Well... I thought I did. Volumes instead of partitions, right? Easy resizing, organize into groups, span physical disks... Am I way off?
On 3/26/07, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20070326/96007575/attachment.html
