[linux-lvm] SuSE Linux 6.3 and LVM

[Bodo Bock]

Peter Knott writes:
 > I tried installing LVM using the installation program YAST
 > provided by SuSE which offers facilities to create physical
 > volume groups and logical volumes.
 > I succesfully created a PV consisting of 2 partitions:
 >   sda1 ( 500MB)
 >   sdc1 (4300MB)
 > 
 > When I tried to create a LV of any size (I tried 1MB up to the
 > max. amount) YAST returned an error message:
 > error code: 95
 > "malloc ..."
 > 
 > Has anyone tried to use the LVM support in SuSE Linux 6.3? If
 > yes, have you encountered similar problems or is this a problem
 > with my hardware?

No I had no such problems but my yast (not yast2) created a filesystem
on the pv and the lv. Sounds funny for me.

Regards

   Bodo

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