LVM problem

[Robin Laing]

Patrick Nelson wrote:
> FC4 Updated
> 
> Trying to setup a LV on a FC4 setup for home and opts.  Here is the 
> process:
> 
> pvcreate /dev/hda1
> 
> vgcreate homeVG /dev/hda1
> 
> lvcreate -L4G -mhomeLV homeVG
> 
> mkfs.ext3 /dev/homeVG/homeLV
> 
> but when I do the step of mkfs.ext3 I get an error of :
> mke2ffs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)
> Could not stat /dev/homeVG/homeLV --- permission denied
> 
> ls -la /dev/homeVG/ shows that a link of homeLV -> 
> /dev/mapper/homeVG-homeLV which has permissions of:
> 
> brw-rw---- root disk 253, 2 Oct 4 17:25
> 
> Anyone have an idea on what is going wrong?
> 

Did you try the graphical tool?  I ask this as I ran into the same 
problem last weekend.  My first attempt at LVM.  Worked like a dream. :)

Desktop > System settings > Logical Volume Management

I was in to much of a rush to wait.

-- 
Robin Laing