Logical Volume Manager

[AbecX]

Has anyone else set this up in linux? I just bought a 250GB drive in compliment to my 200GB and 120GB drives. I setup the drives so they are all combined. Right now I am at 344.67GB ( 250+120 ) while I copy the rest of the data over from the 200GB drive so I can relabel and add it to the physical volume. Anyone else intrested in setting this up? I can give a quick howto if needed. So far its pretty exciting as I will now be able to sort everything onto one logical drive instead of a bunch of different mount points.

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[root@megabox root]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on<br>/dev/hda2 9.0G 8.3G 179M 98% /<br>/dev/hdh1 187G 185G 2.0G 99% /200gbdrive<br>none 126M 0 126M 0% /dev/shm<br>/dev/mapper/storage0-storage<br> 345G 98G 248G 29% /storage
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[AbecX]

woot, got everything finished up:

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[root@megabox storage]# df -h<br>Filesystem Size Used Avail Use%<br>Mounted on<br>/dev/hda2 9.0G 6.3G 2.2G 75% /<br>none 126M 0 126M 0% /dev/shm<br>/dev/mapper/storage0-storage<br> 531G 277G 255G 53% /storage
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[yonson]

Will this work with FAT volumes too? I have 4 FAT and 2 NTFS partitions on this machine, along with 5 linux partitions. I have so many because there are 3 different drives and I have used multiple OS's over the past couple of years.

[AbecX]

No, it will not work with FAT partitions, you have to use Linux LVM Partition Type.

[AbecX]

Man, only 40% open space, fortunatly that just happens to be 240GB left :p