How to format a new hard disk using in LVM2 ?
Given:
hdc is a 80G hard disk.
Only use 20G and mount as backup
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Steps:
# Phyical Volume creation of hdc
pvcreate /dev/hdc
# Volume group creation as name VolGroup01
vgcreate VolGroup01 /dev/hdc
# Logical Volume Group creation as name LogVol00
lvcreate -n LogVol00 --size 20G VolGroup01
# Format as EXT3
mke2fs -j /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00
# Mount as backup
mkdir /backup
mount /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 /backup
# Check result with
df -h
pvdisplay
vgdisplay
lvdisplay
Just my two cents.