Partitioning question - LVM

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Aug 14 12:08:11 UTC 2006


Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I expect to experience partitioning HD on command line creating LVG and
> LV. But I can't start console at time of installation. I even tried
> booting "linux expert". Still I could not start console.
> 
> Booting "rescue" console can be started. After umount HD I can run
> command line partitioning HD. But I can't find following commands;
> 
> lvcreate
> vgcreate
> 
> Finally I'm compelled using GUI installation to finish the job.
> 
> Please advise how can I boot to console window with all commands
> available. TIA

I've not used the command-line tools at install-time so I'm not sure 
about this but you may need to use the "lvm" command instead, e.g.

# lvm pvcreate ...
# lvm vgcreate ...
# lvm lvcreate ...
etc.

Paul.




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