Apparently, though unproven, at 18:25 on Friday 08 April 2011, Dale did opine thusly:
> I'm going to give this a stab here. I go buy a new drive. I use cfdisk > to make it ready for LVM, the 8E thingy. Yes > I then tell LVM to make it a > Physical Volume, either in whole or in part. Yes > I then tell LVM to make it > a Volume Group No. You add the PV to a Volume Group (which will be created if necessary) > and if I already had a drive using LVM I could then add > the new drive to it. Yes. > After that, I create Logical Volumes and put file > systems on it for use sort of like the old partitions. Yes. Once you have made the LV, you then do this: mkfs /dev/mapper/<whatever> instead of mkfs /dev/sda1 The kernel sees /dev/mapper/<whatever> as just another block device (aka something it can mkfs) > > Am I sort of getting on the right track? Spot on > Did someone mention a GUI for this? ^-^ Piffle. GUIs for LVM confuse the issue. Stay away from them like the plague. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
