How to add LVM's after an install?

[Xn Nooby]

awesome, thanks!


On 2/25/06, Mike Bird <mgb-ubuntu at yosemite.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 20:34, Xn Nooby wrote:
> > I have an existing 5.10 Ubuntu install, and I can't figure out how to
> > create a logical volume.  I vaguely remember it asking me something
> > about LVM's during the install, and I may have chosen not to use it at
> > that time.  In addition to my boot drive, I have 3 extra HD's in my
> > machine - and I would like to combine them in to a single gigantic
> > drive.  I added qparted and gtparted, but did not see an option to
> > create an LVM in those programs.  I'm probaly missing something
> > obvious.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Determine which partitions are to be used for LVM and make
> sure the partition types are set to 8e.  Make each such
> partition into a physical volume with pvcreate.  Combine
> the physical volumes into a volume group with vgcreate.
> You can then create logical volumes in the volume group
> using lvcreate.
>
> If you want to use LVM over RAID, set the partition types
> to fd instead.  Create the RAIDs, make the RAIDs into
> physical volumes with pvcreate, and then continue as above.
>
> --Mike Bird
>
>
> --
> ubuntu-users mailing list
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20060226/88992f97/attachment.html>