[brlug-general] Best way to use hdb1?

[Dustin Puryear]

Nope, you are correct. So you know that LVM is going to let you do
whatever you want. :)

Maybe there was an odd coincidence in my email. Is the disk bigger
than 100GB? I had assumed so. I picked 100GB randomly just so you had
something to play with. The LV could be 10GB or 500GB.

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Monday, March 26, 2007, 4:03:01 PM, you wrote:

> Well... I thought I did. Volumes instead of partitions, right? Easy
> resizing, organize into groups, span physical disks... Am I way off?

> On 3/26/07, Dustin Puryear  <dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote:
> 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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