Re: LVM question

2015-04-20 Thread Dark Victorian Spirit
Clear, thanks :) On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:46:38AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:05:17PM +0200, Dark Victorian Spirit wrote: I hope i can ask a question on top of this one, what if i have a PV which is configured and in use for a while, but i found out that i

LVM question

2015-04-20 Thread Petter Adsen
Is it possible to have two VGs on the same PV? If so, how can I make a VG with lots of free space smaller? I'm suspecting that the answer to my first question is no, since this doesn't seem possible from the man pages. Petter -- I'm ionized Are you sure? I'm positive. pgpkZgFpuk4rE.pgp

Re: LVM question

2015-04-20 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 10:33:13 +0100 Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 09:26:54AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: Is it possible to have two VGs on the same PV? I don't believe so. The VG is the mapping layer in the LVM stack. It maps the LVs to the PVs. If you

Re: LVM question

2015-04-20 Thread Dark Victorian Spirit
I hope i can ask a question on top of this one, what if i have a PV which is configured and in use for a while, but i found out that i forgot to set the pertition type on LVM. Can i still change this without data loss or risk? And if i don't will i face issues of another kind? On Mon, Apr 20,

Re: LVM question

2015-04-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 09:26:54AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: Is it possible to have two VGs on the same PV? I don't believe so. The VG is the mapping layer in the LVM stack. It maps the LVs to the PVs. If you were to share a PV between VGs, then you'd need some way to tell the VGs which parts

Re: LVM question

2015-04-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:05:17PM +0200, Dark Victorian Spirit wrote: I hope i can ask a question on top of this one, what if i have a PV which is configured and in use for a while, but i found out that i forgot to set the pertition type on LVM. Can i still change this without data loss or

Re: LVM question: what's the difference between /dev/mapper/vg-lv and /dev/vg/lv

2011-08-24 Thread yudi v
There should be none. Note, however, that /dev/mapper/ may contain non-LVM specials as well, such as cryptsetup(8) ones. My guess is that /dev/VG/LV may provide some sort of backwards compatibility, as LVM may have been implemented before Linux's

LVM question: what's the difference between /dev/mapper/vg-lv and /dev/vg/lv

2011-08-23 Thread yudi v
I created a LV and was going to use the following command to create a file system: mkfs.ext4 /dev/vg/lv someone suggested I use: mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-lv What's the difference? -- Kind regards, Yudi

Re: LVM question: what's the difference between /dev/mapper/vg-lv and /dev/vg/lv

2011-08-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Yudi, yudi v wrote: I created a LV and was going to use the following command to create a file system: mkfs.ext4 /dev/vg/lv someone suggested I use: mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-lv What's the difference? Perhaps nothing, provided it is mapped properly: # ls -lart /dev/mapper/vg0-root

Re: LVM question: what's the difference between /dev/mapper/vg-lv and /dev/vg/lv

2011-08-23 Thread Ivan Shmakov
yudi v yudi@gmail.com writes: I created a LV and was going to use the following command to create a file system: mkfs.ext4 /dev/vg/lv someone suggested I use: mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-lv What's the difference? There should be none. Note, however, that

Re: bug in installer? (was Re: debian testing installer encrypted LVM question)

2009-07-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 4a50a818.8060...@ccf.auth.gr, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Anyway, does it make any sense to partition a logical volume? Not usually. Might be useful in some odd corner case -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984

Re: bug in installer? (was Re: debian testing installer encrypted LVM question)

2009-07-05 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Jochen Schulz wrote: Giorgos Pallas: - failed to create a file system The ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of LVM VG vg1, LV rootFS failed -- snip Is this supposed to happen? Did I do something wrong? I had the same issue when using the AMD64 squeeze installer a few

Re: debian testing installer encrypted LVM question

2009-07-04 Thread Suno Ano
Giorgos Hello to everybody! My laptop has a partition with Vista and Giorgos the rest of the disk is free space. I boot the debian Giorgos installer cd and the question is: can I somehow select the Giorgos 'lvm + encrypt' scheme while preserving the vista partition? Giorgos This 'use entire

bug in installer? (was Re: debian testing installer encrypted LVM question)

2009-07-04 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Hi all! To me it looks like a bug, but I'd like to show it to the list before filing it as a bug. My goal is to install debian testing using encrypted LVM, but not using the entire disk: I want to keep a free partition for installing vista (for educational purposes...). So, the steps that

Re: bug in installer? (was Re: debian testing installer encrypted LVM question)

2009-07-04 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Giorgos Pallas wrote: Hi all! To me it looks like a bug, but I'd like to show it to the list before filing it as a bug. My goal is to install debian testing using encrypted LVM, but not using the entire disk: I want to keep a free partition for installing vista (for educational

Re: bug in installer? (was Re: debian testing installer encrypted LVM question)

2009-07-04 Thread Jochen Schulz
Giorgos Pallas: - failed to create a file system The ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of LVM VG vg1, LV rootFS failed -- snip Is this supposed to happen? Did I do something wrong? I had the same issue when using the AMD64 squeeze installer a few days ago. I think it is a bug,

debian testing installer encrypted LVM question

2009-07-03 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Hello to everybody! My laptop has a partition with Vista and the rest of the disk is free space. I boot the debian installer cd and the question is: can I somehow select the 'lvm + encrypt' scheme while preserving the vista partition? This 'use entire disk' which goes along the encrypted lvm

Managing the physical re-arrangement of my disks (boot sector question and lvm question)

2006-08-14 Thread Alan Chandler
I have a debian sarge server with 3 ide drives. Apart from the root filesystem on its own ext3 partition (hda1), the remainder of these disks use lvm partitions. I use grub to manage the boot process. I am about to try and upgrade with some new SATA disks, but from a case/power consumption

Re: Managing the physical re-arrangement of my disks (boot sector question and lvm question)

2006-08-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) Before finally removing it, I would like to set up the disk that is currently in /dev/hdc with a boot sector and filesystem, such that when re-install it as /dev/hda it just boots up the root filesystem in its first partition. Obviously I can

Re: Managing the physical re-arrangement of my disks (boot sector question and lvm question)

2006-08-14 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 14 August 2006 08:49, Russell L. Harris wrote: Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) Before finally removing it, I would like to set up the disk that is currently in /dev/hdc with a boot sector and filesystem, such that when re-install it as /dev/hda it just boots up the

LVM question

2006-02-09 Thread Gabe Granger
I've just installed linux on a new machine and thought I'd give RAID + LVM a go :) I've now discovered that I've created them the wrong sizes. I now need to shrink one and extend the other. I want to shrink LV /dev/onboard-sata/static by 20GB then extend LV / dev/onboard-sata/home by 20Gb.

Re: LVM question

2006-02-09 Thread Gabe Granger
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, i did the followingresize_reiserfs -s-14G /dev/mapper/onboard--sata-static Which finished saying "resize_reiserfs: Resizing finished successfully."But when I then tried to resize the LV using lvreduce -L -14G /dev/mapper/onboard--sata-staticI get the

Re: LVM question SOLVED

2006-02-09 Thread Gabe Granger
I managed to work out what was wrong! instead of using /dev/mapper/onboard--sata-static I should have used /dev/onboard-sata/static as soon as i made this simple change everything worked :) sorry for being such a newbieOn 9 Feb 2006, at 16:47, Gabe Granger wrote:Thanks for pointing me in the

Re: A Newbie LVM Question

2004-03-04 Thread stan
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:42:30PM -0500, stan wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:37:06AM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote: Content-Description: message body text Hi, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've played with LVM on HP-UX, but only just enough to get a firm handle on the fact

Re: A Newbie LVM Question

2004-03-04 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:13:18AM -0500, stan wrote: Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:13:18 -0500 From: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A Newbie LVM Question On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:42:30PM -0500, stan wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:37:06AM +0100, Erich Waelde

Re: A Newbie LVM Question

2004-03-04 Thread stan
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 05:09:02PM +0200, Alexei Chetroi wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:13:18AM -0500, stan wrote: Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:13:18 -0500 From: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A Newbie LVM Question On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:42:30PM -0500

Re: A Newbie LVM Question

2004-03-04 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 04 March 2004 10:38 am, stan wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 05:09:02PM +0200, Alexei Chetroi wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:13:18AM -0500, stan wrote: Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:13:18 -0500 From: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A Newbie LVM

Re: A Newbie LVM Question

2004-03-04 Thread stan
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A Newbie LVM Question On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:42:30PM -0500, stan wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:37:06AM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote: Content-Description: message body text I made a little more progress on this last

Re: A Newbie LVM Question

2004-03-04 Thread Bill Carlson
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, stan wrote: I geuss at this point I don't have any serious problems with creating these links by hand, but I would appreciate soemone who has this workign telling me exactly what links ot make. I'm thinking that this needs to run _very_ early in the startup sequence,

Re: A Newbie LVM Question

2004-03-03 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 07:22:24PM -0500, stan wrote: Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 19:22:24 -0500 From: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: A Newbie LVM Question I've played with LVM on HP-UX, but only just enough to get a firm handle on the fact that I don't understand the complexities

Re: A Newbie LVM Question

2004-03-03 Thread Erich Waelde
Hi, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've played with LVM on HP-UX, but only just enough to get a firm handle on the fact that I don't understand the complexities of it, and that is easy to screw up, but hard to fix :-) So, I find myself building a Debian MytTV machine. In addition to the

Re: A Newbie LVM Question

2004-03-03 Thread stan
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:37:06AM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote: Content-Description: message body text Hi, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've played with LVM on HP-UX, but only just enough to get a firm handle on the fact that I don't understand the complexities of it, and that is

A Newbie LVM Question

2004-03-02 Thread stan
I've played with LVM on HP-UX, but only just enough to get a firm handle on the fact that I don't understand the complexities of it, and that is easy to screw up, but hard to fix :-) So, I find myself building a Debian MytTV machine. In addition to the 40G root drive, I installed 2 other drives,