Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>> 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.
You should have made it a primary partition. An extended partition is
usually used as a container for situations where you want more than 4
partitions.
>>
>>
>> I don't know how to invoke Disk Druid.
>>
>> Are there instructions for this anywhere?
I think this is built into anaconda. You could setup a partition with it
and not actually go through the installer.
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)?
You might be able to go back into fdisk and remove all partitions and
then recreate a primary partition, toggle the partition type and then
start over carefully.
I would expect the GUI for lvm management could handle this task. I have
not used lvm for a very long time bu did use the GUI lvm manager
successfully. Hopefully s-c-lvm is getting better.
Jim
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