Regular volume /dev/hde1 has flesystem, how to determine and manage volumes in LVM?

[Paul Smith]

On 12/31/06, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> >> > Disk /dev/hde: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> >> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> >> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >> >
> >> >   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> >> > /dev/hde1   *           1       10000    80324968+  83  Linux
> >> > /dev/hde2           10001       19457    75963352+  8e  Linux LVM
> >>
> >> If you are trying to diagnose the LVM partition, there is a visual tool
> >> for setting up LVM partitions and it will also show visually what the
> >> partitions are made up as.
> >>
> >> Go to System/Administration/Logical Volume Management on the GNOME menus
> >> and try to launch the program.
> >>
> >> The first partition is regular partition and should be mountable with
> >> making a directory for the volume  and mounting it with
> >> mount /dev/hde1 /mnt/MyCreatedDirectory
> >>   whatever that would be.
> >
> > Thanks, Jim. hde1 mounts correctly. The visual LVM tool indicates no
> > filesystem in hde2.
>
> If you want to be sure that nothing exists on the volumes in the LVM,
> send a new posting with the title related to activating LVM and finding
> out how to mount these partitions. I believe that pvscan will show you
> the physical volumes contained in the Logical volume. lvscan should show
> you the Logical volumes.
>
> I avoid LVMs mostly so I know little about managing the LVMs.

Thanks, Jim. I am now sure that there is nothing in hde2.

Paul