WHat is the physical volume in LVM's? Why do we need to create a physical volume first before creating LVM's? I mean, LVM's are created from physical disks, so why do we need to specify it? Didnt get it. Anybody want to help me with this?
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Hi,
I am experiencing problems in creating a physical volume on RAID 1 system.
Here is what I did.
#/usr/sbin/pvcreate /dev/md0
the message reads:
"Device /dev/md0 not found (or ignored by filtering)."
The /dev/md0 has a partition type 8e for linux LVM
Can anyone enlighten me?
Thanks
How to create multiple Logical Groups out of a single Physical Volume? Here is the Physical Volume I have created:
Code:
# pvdisplay
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda9
VG Name myVG1
PV Size 54.88 MB / not usable 2.88 MB
Allocatable yes
PE Size (KByte) 4096
Total PE 13
Free PE 11
Allocated PE 2
PV UUID bon4Ao-vmgC-aP1h-EC9X-w3tN-YXNu-0N2dAw
This is how I am creating a Logical Group out of the above Physical Volume:
Code:
# vgcreate myVG1 -s 4m /dev/sda9
Display:
Code:
# vgdisplay
--- Volume group ---
VG Name myVG1
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 5
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 2
Open LV 1
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 52.00 MB
PE Size 4.00 MB
Total PE 13
Alloc PE / Size 2 / 8.00 MB
Free PE / Size 11 / 44.00 MB
VG UUID O6ljYC-bflz-EUTd-nf34-8gYe-Fh39-Bh3cOg
But I am unable to create one more Logical Group out of this Physical Volume. Can we accomplish it? Or do we always extend our current Logical Group to utilize the available space of a Physical Volume?
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Code:
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[code]....
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Code:
Using physical volume(s) on command line
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/dev/sda6 VolGroup lvm2 a- 29.73g 440.00m 6859 128 lv_swap 0 linear /dev/sda6:6859-6986
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Code:
root@sysresccd /root % pvdisplay
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda2
VG Name vg0
[code]....
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Unable to mount 52 GB LVM2 Physical Volume - not a mountable file system
This is what fdisk -l shows
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
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Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
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[Code]....
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