On Friday 08 April 2011 05:42:59 Dale wrote: > I been reading this howto: > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html > > It hasn't been updated in several years now. Should I be reading this > or is it up to date enough that I wont end up confused because of > changes that have occurred since that howto has been updated? I don't > want to learn something just to find out that there has been changes and > then get my brain turned to soup.
Not sure about the commands there. The basic theory is, from a quick glance, still valid. That it still mentions LVM1 isn't usefull for you as you'll automatically be using LVM2. (yes, new version came out sometimes in 2.6.x :) ) As for more current howtos: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LVM http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml And via a blog posting ( http://www.vm-aware.com/2008/08/how-to-linux-lvm/ ) I found 2 more: http://www.ntlug.org/Articles/LVM http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_lvm > Little light bulb here. physical volume is the same as a physical > drive? If I understand it correctly, it is the whole thing unpartitioned. Eerh... Nearly there :) Most people use partitions on a physical drive for the physical volumes. > I'm hoping for some nice pictures before to long to help explain this > some more. lol You ask, wikipedia delivers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_%28Linux%29 -- Joost
