3 hard drives as 1

[Ragnar Wiencke]

Ok guys.
Here is what I've done so far.

1    I created Linux partitions on the empty spaces on each drive (hda2,
hdb2 and hdd2)
2    Then I ran pvcreate on each /dev/hdx2
3    Then I ran vgcreate vg01 /dev/hda2
4    Then I ran lvcreate -l4 -nlv01 vg01
5    Then I ran vgextend vg01 /dev/hdb2 and vgextend vg01 /dev/hdd2

And now I don't know what to do next. I wanted to mount the 25 GB on /drif
which I already had created. But how? And maybe more important, did I do
right so far?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Konosky" <TerranAce007 at comcast.net>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: 3 hard drives as 1


> Ragnar Wiencke wrote:
>
> >Hi there guys.
> >
> >I am installing FC2 with 3x10GB hard drives. I got about 8.5GB of free
space
> >on each drive. How can I mount the 3 partitions so that I see one
mounting
> >point with about 25GB space?
> >
> >Tia,
> >Ragnar W.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Well, you need to first create a 100mb /boot partition on one of the
> drives, preferably the master drive that the bootloader will be
> installed on. There are two options:
>
> For the rest of the drives create an LVM partition on each one, then
> create a Logical Volume group, so you have 3 8.5gb LVM volumes in one
> group. Make the LVM group your "/" partition, then you will have ~25gb
> of space.
>
> You could do something similar by creating Software RAID partitions
> instead of LVM, and setup a RAID 0 (striped across all 3 drives) array
> to mount /.
>
> In either case, make sure you make a swap partition on one of the
> drives. I am currently using a 75gb LVM on /dev/hda and a 35gb LVM on
> /dev/hdb, which gives mes a "/" filesystem of 110gb. Works very well and
> I have had no problems yet.
>
>
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