is lvm deprecated?

Mike Wright mike.wright at mailinator.com
Fri May 8 19:07:30 UTC 2009


Richard Shaw wrote:
> 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.
> 

Been using and enjoying lvm2 for quite a while.  What you describe is 
exactly what I wanted.

I thought I'd done this correctly.  Done it many times before.  I guess 
I screwed it up but wasn't sure whether it was me or the new installer.

Thanx,
:m)




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