Logical Volume Vs HDD

Ali Helmy alihelmy at gmail.com
Mon Apr 10 10:14:08 UTC 2006


On 10/04/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 23:14 +0200, Ali Helmy wrote:
> > Hey mates,
> >
> > Is it possible to create a single Logical Volume partition on two (or
> > more) HDDs? I mean, for the user it would all be mounted under the /,
> > but still it would span the space of both HDDs to make it bigger in
> > size...
> >
> > I am planning on installing FC4 to my PC and then upgrading it to FC5,
> > and it would be great if the LV would just span both my HDDs...
>
> Yes, it's possible and it's one of LVM's main features to create this
> possibility. You should be able to set this up in the installer by
> creating an LVM Physical Volume partition on both drives and then
> assigning both physical volumes to the same logical volume.
>
> Paul.
>
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Thanks mates, I now have a single LV that spans both of my small HDDs
together, to make a single 30GB partition, out of a 10GB & 20GB HDDs...

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     A. Helmy
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