is lvm deprecated?
Mike Wright
mike.wright at mailinator.com
Fri May 8 19:07:30 UTC 2009
Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Mike Wright <mike.wright at mailinator.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This is wrt f10.
>>
>> I have an 80G drive. When I installed f10 I chose a custom layout for it.
>> My intent was to have a separate /boot partition, swap partition, and 4
>> lvms of approx. 20G each.
>>
>> When all was said and done the drive ended up looking like this:
>>
>> /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
>> /dev/sda2 14 2435 19454715 83 Linux
>> /dev/sda3 2436 4857 19454715 8e Linux LVM
>> /dev/sda4 4858 9964 41021977+ 5 Extended
>> /dev/sda5 4858 7279 19454683+ 8e Linux LVM
>> /dev/sda6 7280 7406 1020096 82 Linux swap /
>> Solaris
>> /dev/sda7 7407 9964 20547103+ 8e Linux LVM
>>
>> Certainly not what I intended.
>>
>> Tried lvdisplay and got no results. Tried lvscan first then lvdisplay and
>> got the same outcome. vgdisplay, ditto. pvdisplay, nada. fdisk seems to
>> think there are logical volumes.
>>
>> cat /etc/mtab and I see this: /dev/mapper/pdc_gdgdgcfhp1 (and 2). In fact
>> in /dev/mapper there are 9 of these.
>>
>> Anybody know where this is documented? Is lvm dead? Inquiring minds want
>> to know ;)
>>
>> Thanks for any insight,
>> Mike Wright
>>
>
> I think what you really want is one volume group and four logical volumes. I
> think you created 3 volume groups but perhaps someone with more LVM
> experience would know better.
>
Been using and enjoying lvm2 for quite a while. What you describe is
exactly what I wanted.
I thought I'd done this correctly. Done it many times before. I guess
I screwed it up but wasn't sure whether it was me or the new installer.
Thanx,
:m)
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