On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 01:31, Marc Shapiro wrote: ... > One thing that I have yet to see a conclusive answer to: Can I make LVM > Logical Volumes from logical partitions in an extended physical volume. > Since I have 4 physical volumes, including an extended volume, I would > have to create the LVs from logical partitions. > > Also, assuming that I can use logical partitions, is it possible to use > some, but not all logical partitions from an extended partition. > Currently, my / partition is /dev/hda5 and my /boot partition is > /dev/hda11 and I would want these to NOT be included in the LV. I would > be including /dev/hda6 through /dev/hda10 as well as a new /dev/hda12 > (which will be the remaining space on the disk). > > Will this work?
I can't be 100% sure (because once you are using LVM you really don't need lots of partitions - so I only have a few ( some combination of root, boot, swap and lvm) on the most populated disks, but I believe the answer is yes. You can easily try it on your spare partition. Just use pvcreate /dev/hda12 followed by vgcreate vg /dev/hda12 followed by lvcreate -L 200M -n test vg (or whatever size you want) mkreiserfs /dev/vg/test and then try and mount it and use it. When you are done unmount it and then lvremove /dev/vg/test vgremove vg pvremove /dev/hda12 -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
