>>>>> "Timothy" == Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Timothy> Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>>>>>> "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?
Timothy> Not sure if this is relevant, but as I understand it you
Timothy> have to create LVM in a partition like /dev/sdb2 .
Timothy> So the first step is to create such a partition with
Timothy> fdisk. You should give it the LVM partition type (with
Timothy> fdisk), though I am not sure if this is necessary.
Yes I did this now. I don't know why it worked the first time.
But now I have got into a terrible mess. I accidentally chose to click
the box for a clustered volume group. And now I cannot get rid of
it. All commands (including vgremove) just skip the clustered volume
group.
How do I remove it (or mark it as non-clustered)?
--
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire
