is lvm deprecated?

[Richard Shaw]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Mike Wright <mike.wright at mailinator.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This is wrt f10.
>
> I have an 80G drive.  When I installed f10 I chose a custom layout for it.
>  My intent was to have a separate /boot partition, swap partition, and 4
> lvms of approx. 20G each.
>
> When all was said and done the drive ended up looking like this:
>
> /dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2              14        2435    19454715   83  Linux
> /dev/sda3            2436        4857    19454715   8e  Linux LVM
> /dev/sda4            4858        9964    41021977+   5  Extended
> /dev/sda5            4858        7279    19454683+  8e  Linux LVM
> /dev/sda6            7280        7406     1020096   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/sda7            7407        9964    20547103+  8e  Linux LVM
>
> Certainly not what I intended.
>
> Tried lvdisplay and got no results.  Tried lvscan first then lvdisplay and
> got the same outcome.  vgdisplay, ditto.  pvdisplay, nada.  fdisk seems to
> think there are logical volumes.
>
> cat /etc/mtab and I see this: /dev/mapper/pdc_gdgdgcfhp1 (and 2).  In fact
> in /dev/mapper there are 9 of these.
>
> Anybody know where this is documented?  Is lvm dead?  Inquiring minds want
> to know ;)
>
> Thanks for any insight,
> Mike Wright
>

I think what you really want is one volume group and four logical volumes. I
think you created 3 volume groups but perhaps someone with more LVM
experience would know better.

Richard
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