Adding a logical volume

[Colin Paul Adams]

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> writes:

    Jim> 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)?

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

How do I do this?

I have tried with fdisk and got lost.
I added an extended partition, then tried to change its system id to
8e (LVM). It wouldn't let me.


I don't know how to invoke Disk Druid.

Are there instructions for this anywhere?
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire