Nope, you are correct. So you know that LVM is going to let you do whatever you want. :)
Maybe there was an odd coincidence in my email. Is the disk bigger than 100GB? I had assumed so. I picked 100GB randomly just so you had something to play with. The LV could be 10GB or 500GB. --- 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, 4:03:01 PM, you wrote: > 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 > >
