[linux-lvm] Problem With LVM mirroring

[F-D. Cami]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 03:04:46 +0530
Prateek Donni <prateek.donni at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to mirror a logical Volume with only one duplicate copy.
> I have a 2 hard drives.
> I have a PV on the second hard drive and one on an USB drive. as follows:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  --- Physical volume ---
>   PV Name               /dev/sda8
>   VG Name               Group
>   PV Size               7.81 GB / not usable 1.09 MB
>   Allocatable           yes
>   PE Size (KByte)       4096
>   Total PE              2000
>   Free PE               2000
>   Allocated PE          0
>   PV UUID               sLSoCU-4tMO-z1fk-royV-r8ND-PcoF-c0Wza5
> 
>   --- Physical volume ---
>   PV Name               /dev/sdc
>   VG Name               Group
>   PV Size               3.77 GB / not usable 4.00 MB
>   Allocatable           yes
>   PE Size (KByte)       4096
>   Total PE              963
>   Free PE               963
>   Allocated PE          0
>   PV UUID               IWIYlR-UuGy-kFo6-E1j1-qu1B-7KfI-beAjhF
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> On top of this i have a VG also consisting of these two PVs.
> I would like to know how can i make a LV in this which is mirroed with
> only one Duplicate copy. As in an original and a copy of the original.
> 
> I have been unable to even create a LV of size 500M using this.

Hi Prateek,

Could you please post the output of vgdisplay -v ?
Thanks

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fdc