[brlug-general] Best way to use hdb1?

[Dustin Puryear]

You must not understand LVM. :)

There are some good resources about LVM on the web I think. You can
read docs on any implementation, ranging from the one on AIX to Linux.
The concept is the same everywhere.

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Monday, March 26, 2007, 2:06:04 PM, you wrote:

> You're saying to make one volume that takes up the whole disk? Then why bother with LVM?

> On 3/26/07, Dustin Puryear < dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote:
> If you don't know what to do with it, then def. use LVM. So, I'd do 
> this:

> 1. Insert drive
> 2. fdisk as LVM
> 3. pvcreate /dev/sdX
> 4. vgcreate VolGroupXX /dev/sdX
> 5. lvcreate -n MyVolXX VolGroupXX -L 100GB
> 6. mkfs.ext3 /dev/VolGroupXX/MyVolXX
> 7. mount /dev/VolGroupXX/MyVolXX /home/shared 

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>  Monday, March 26, 2007, 1:46:03 PM, you wrote:

>> This is the first time I've ever dabbled with multiple drives in
>> Linux, and I don't know what to do. Where should I mount it? If I
>> mount it as a subdirectory of my home, then it's mine. What if 
>> someone else wants to use it? I thought about something like
>> /var/storage, and I did that, but then I had permission problems
>> (because root mounted it, so root owned it). If I tried to 777 it,
 >> it only went to 755. I couldn't chown or chgrp it either. I thought
>> reformatting the drive as vfat might solve the permission issues, but it did not.

>> sudo chown joe /var/storage
>> operation not permitted. 

>> sudo chown joe ~/hdb1
>> operation not permitted.

>> So what do I do? What filesystem should I use?

>> And yes, for future use, I'll throw an entry in fstab, I was just using mount for now. 


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