Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:39 on Friday 08 April 2011, Dale did opine
thusly:
[snip]
Yea, I didn't type that in the way I meant it. PV is the bottom level,
then VG goes on top of that then the LV. I think I am typing that in
right. Basically, I create the PV first, then the VG then the LV.<
scratches head a bit> I think I get it but may need better wording.
Nah, you got it already ;-)
The kernel sees /dev/mapper/<whatever> as just another block device (aka
something it can mkfs)
So when I get ready to make a file system, say ext3, then it would be
mkfs.ext3 /dev/mapper/<whatever>. Then it would be ready to put stuff on.
Yup. You'll have to poke around /dev/ a bit to see how your udev does it today
but you got the gist of it
root@fireball / # pvcreate /dev/sdb
Physical volume "/dev/sdb" successfully created
root@fireball / #
Step one done. It didn't puke on my keyboard. lol
Now to see what else I can get into. Not going to put anything
important on it tho. Just a temporary thing right now. Just getting my
feet wet.
Dale
:-) :-)
