Adding a logical volume

[Jim Cornette]

Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> I have uninitialized disk space on my disk (/dev/sda), and I have the
> Logical Volume Management GUI tool system-config-lvm 1.1.1 running and
> looking at the unpartitioned space.
> 
> How do I create a new logical volume group in that space (the obvious
> way seems to be to press the Initialize entity button, but that is
> greyed out)?

You might need to initialize the disk and toggle the partition to lvm 
with fdisk or another disk management tool first. I read that people 
have setup lvm without partitions a long while back but not much lately 
about lvm with no previous partitions setup.

Jim

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