Robin Laing wrote:
Patrick Nelson wrote:
FC4 Updated
Trying to setup a LV on a FC4 setup for home and opts. Here is the
process:
pvcreate /dev/hda1
vgcreate homeVG /dev/hda1
lvcreate -L4G -mhomeLV homeVG
mkfs.ext3 /dev/homeVG/homeLV
but when I do the step of mkfs.ext3 I get an error of :
mke2ffs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)
Could not stat /dev/homeVG/homeLV --- permission denied
ls -la /dev/homeVG/ shows that a link of homeLV ->
/dev/mapper/homeVG-homeLV which has permissions of:
brw-rw---- root disk 253, 2 Oct 4 17:25
Anyone have an idea on what is going wrong?
Did you try the graphical tool? I ask this as I ran into the same
problem last weekend. My first attempt at LVM. Worked like a dream. :)
Desktop > System settings > Logical Volume Management
I was in to much of a rush to wait.
No I have not tried the tool, but I did finally get it working.
I tried rebooting and that left the system locked at the Volume Manager
stage. So I rescued booted the system and then chroot /mnt/sysimage and
then I removed the LV and VG and then I repartioned the HD and then did:
pvcreate /dev/hda1
vgcreate homeVG /dev/hda1
lvcreate -L4G -mhomeLV homeVG
mkfs.ext3 /dev/homeVG/homeLV
and it worked. So I continued and got all the my VG and LVs up and
working. Then I fixed up the /etc/fstab and it rebooted normally!
Woho, but I'm not totally sure what happened when I was initially
setting it up.
