Matthew Opoka wrote:
The reason you are not seeing your physical devices in the fstab is due to the fact you are using Logical Volume Management or LVM. LVM maps you physical device or physical partition
Ahhh...so that's the LVM I've been hearing about...
to a volume group and logical volume, ie: /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00. In addition, you /boot partition is being mounted by the label name. To figure out what physical partition is mapped to which volume, run the command below and notice the PV Name: /usr/sbin/pvdisplay One way to figure out which partition may be labeled /boot, run the commands below: /sbin/tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 | grep name /sbin/tune2fs -l /dev/sda2 | grep name I'm assuming the later command will error out because I suspect it is a physical volume, pv. The output of fdisk -l /dev/sda will also confirm which partition is the pv.
Thanks - those commands confirm both my assumptions and yours. Since I've already added an additional IDE drive (/dev/hdc) once without even realizing that LVM was there, I assume that I don't need to use it to add this new SATA drive? I can just follow my usual steps of fdisk, parted, edit /etc/fstab, etc? (this drive is just going to be a place to archive large files - mapped into the filesystem at /backup or something) Thanks, Chris -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Chris Merrill | Web Performance, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://webperformance.com 919-433-1762 | 919-845-7601 Website Load Testing and Stress Testing Software & Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
