On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 05:06 -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I am trying to help a person who has a system with two 250G hard disks > (non-SCSI). He would like to use the two disks (or partitions from the > two disks) as a single LVM volume. Now I have read the HOWTO for LVM > but I am still confused. The answers to some questions would be > helpful. We are using FC3. > > If the disks are partitioned as follows: > /dev/hda > /dev/hda1 -> /boot > /dev/hda2 -> /swap > /dev/hda3 -> ? > /dev/hdb > /dev/hdb1 -> ? > > I have tried to create the LVM volumes using disk druid. > > What we would like to do is combine /dev/hda3 and /hdb1 into a logical > volume. Does that make sense as a goal? Yes. > I assume that the Logical Volume could be mounted at / Yes. > Now the real questions? > /dev/hda3 and /dev/hdb1 have been set to type 8e by disk druid. Yes. > 1. How does the reference to the Logical volume appear in grub.conf? Does > the device.map deal with this? It doesn't. Grub doesn't know (or need to know) about logical volumes because it only needs to access the regular partition /boot to boot Linux. > 2. How does the reference to the logical volume appear in fstab? Probably something like this: /dev/VolumeGroupName/LogVolName / ext3 defaults 1 1 Or it might use the "LABEL=/" syntax instead. > 3. Can the Fedora 3 rescue disk deal with a system with this > structure? Can it mount the Logical Volume? Again how do I refer to it > in the mount arguments? Yes it can but I've never needed to do it myself so I don't know the specifics. > 4. And am I completely off base with my questions, since I suspect > that I really don't know what I am doing? Did you read the LVM HOWTO? Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
