>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire
