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    A Beginner's Guide To LVM

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    The document provides instructions for setting up logical volume management (LVM) on a server. It first uses fdisk to create partitions on several disks, then labels the partitions as physical volumes for LVM using pvcreate. Finally, it checks the status of the physical volumes using pvdisplay to confirm they are ready to be used for LVM. The overall process orients around preparing disk partitions to be managed as physical volumes by LVM.

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    A Beginner's Guide To LVM

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    The document provides instructions for setting up logical volume management (LVM) on a server. It first uses fdisk to create partitions on several disks, then labels the partitions as physical volumes for LVM using pvcreate. Finally, it checks the status of the physical volumes using pvdisplay to confirm they are ready to be used for LVM. The overall process orients around preparing disk partitions to be managed as physical volumes by LVM.

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    The document provides instructions for setting up logical volume management (LVM) on a server. It first uses fdisk to create partitions on several disks, then labels the partitions as physical volumes for LVM using pvcreate. Finally, it checks the status of the physical volumes using pvdisplay to confirm they are ready to be used for LVM. The overall process orients around preparing disk partitions to be managed as physical volumes by LVM.

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    A Beginner's Guide To LVM

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    The document provides instructions for setting up logical volume management (LVM) on a server. It first uses fdisk to create partitions on several disks, then labels the partitions as physical volumes for LVM using pvcreate. Finally, it checks the status of the physical volumes using pvdisplay to confirm they are ready to be used for LVM. The overall process orients around preparing disk partitions to be managed as physical volumes by LVM.

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    A Beginner's Guide To LVM

    1 Our First LVM Setup


    Let's find out about our hard disks:
    fdisk -l

    The output looks like this:


    server1:~# fdisk -l
    Disk /dev/sda: 21.4 GB, 21474836480 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2610 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Device Boot
    /dev/sda1
    *
    /dev/sda2
    /dev/sda4
    is

    Start
    1
    19
    2451

    End
    18
    2450
    2610

    Blocks
    144553+
    19535040
    1285200

    Id
    83
    83
    82

    Disk /dev/sdb: 85.8 GB, 85899345920 bytes


    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10443 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
    Disk /dev/sdc: 85.8 GB, 85899345920 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10443 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table
    Disk /dev/sdd: 85.8 GB, 85899345920 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10443 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Disk /dev/sdd doesn't contain a valid partition table
    Disk /dev/sde: 85.8 GB, 85899345920 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10443 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Disk /dev/sde doesn't contain a valid partition table
    Disk /dev/sdf: 85.8 GB, 85899345920 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10443 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Disk /dev/sdf doesn't contain a valid partition table

    System
    Linux
    Linux
    Linux swap / Solar

    There are no partitions yet on /dev/sdb - /dev/sdf. We will create the partitions
    /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1, /dev/sdd1, and /dev/sde1 and leave /dev/sdf untouched for
    now. We act as if our hard disks had only 25GB of space instead of 80GB for now,
    therefore we assign 25GB to /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1, /dev/sdd1, and /dev/sde1:
    fdisk /dev/sdb

    server1:~# fdisk /dev/sdb


    The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 10443.
    There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
    and could in certain setups cause problems with:
    1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
    2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
    (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
    Command (m for help): <-- m
    Command action
    a
    toggle a bootable flag
    b
    edit bsd disklabel
    c
    toggle the dos compatibility flag
    d
    delete a partition
    l
    list known partition types
    m
    print this menu
    n
    add a new partition
    o
    create a new empty DOS partition table
    p
    print the partition table
    q
    quit without saving changes
    s
    create a new empty Sun disklabel
    t
    change a partition's system id
    u
    change display/entry units
    v
    verify the partition table
    w
    write table to disk and exit
    x
    extra functionality (experts only)
    Command (m for help): <-- n
    Command action
    e
    extended
    p
    primary partition (1-4)
    <-- p
    Partition number (1-4): <-- 1
    First cylinder (1-10443, default 1): <-- <ENTER>
    Using default value 1
    Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-10443, default 10443): <-+25000M
    Command (m for help): <-- t
    Selected partition 1
    Hex code (type L to list codes): <-- L
    0

    Empty

    1e

    Hidden W95 FAT1 80

    Old Minix

    be

    Solaris bo

    ot
    1 FAT12
    2 XENIX root
    (FAT3 XENIX usr
    (FAT4 FAT16 <32M
    (FAT5 Extended
    6 FAT16
    a
    7 HPFS/NTFS
    S / .
    8 AIX
    ty
    9 AIX bootable
    a OS/2 Boot Manag
    b W95 FAT32
    c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
    e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
    f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
    10 OPUS
    12/16/
    11 Hidden FAT12
    RISC b
    12 Compaq diagnost
    14 Hidden FAT16 <3
    16 Hidden FAT16
    ary
    17 Hidden HPFS/NTF
    auto
    18 AST SmartSleep
    1b Hidden W95 FAT3
    1c Hidden W95 FAT3
    Hex code (type L to
    Changed system type

    24
    39

    NEC DOS
    Plan 9

    81
    82

    Minix / old Lin bf


    Linux swap / So c1

    Solaris
    DRDOS/sec

    3c

    PartitionMagic

    83

    Linux

    c4

    DRDOS/sec

    40

    Venix 80286

    84

    OS/2 hidden C:

    c6

    DRDOS/sec

    41
    42

    PPC PReP Boot


    SFS

    85
    86

    Linux extended c7
    NTFS volume set da

    Syrinx
    Non-FS dat

    4d

    QNX4.x

    87

    NTFS volume set db

    CP/M / CTO

    4e

    QNX4.x 2nd part 88

    Linux plaintext de

    Dell Utili

    4f
    50
    51
    52
    53
    54
    55

    QNX4.x 3rd part


    OnTrack DM
    OnTrack DM6 Aux
    CP/M
    OnTrack DM6 Aux
    OnTrackDM6
    EZ-Drive

    8e
    93
    94
    9f
    a0
    a5
    a6

    Linux LVM
    df
    Amoeba
    e1
    Amoeba BBT
    e3
    BSD/OS
    e4
    IBM Thinkpad hi eb
    FreeBSD
    ee
    OpenBSD
    ef

    BootIt
    DOS access
    DOS R/O
    SpeedStor
    BeOS fs
    EFI GPT
    EFI (FAT-

    56

    Golden Bow

    a7

    NeXTSTEP

    f0

    Linux/PA-

    5c
    61
    63

    Priam Edisk
    a8
    SpeedStor
    a9
    GNU HURD or Sys ab

    Darwin UFS
    NetBSD
    Darwin boot

    f1
    f4
    f2

    SpeedStor
    SpeedStor
    DOS second

    64

    Novell Netware

    BSDI fs

    fd

    Linux raid

    b7

    65 Novell Netware b8 BSDI swap


    fe
    70 DiskSecure Mult bb Boot Wizard hid ff
    75 PC/IX
    list codes): <-- 8e
    of partition 1 to 8e (Linux LVM)

    Command (m for help): <-- w


    The partition table has been altered!
    Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
    Syncing disks.
    Now we do the same for the hard disks /dev/sdc - /dev/sde:
    fdisk /dev/sdc
    fdisk /dev/sdd
    fdisk /dev/sde

    Then run

    LANstep
    BBT

    fdisk -l

    again. The output should look like this:


    server1:~# fdisk -l
    Disk /dev/sda: 21.4 GB, 21474836480 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2610 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Device Boot
    /dev/sda1
    *
    /dev/sda2
    /dev/sda4
    is

    Start
    1
    19
    2451

    End
    18
    2450
    2610

    Blocks
    144553+
    19535040
    1285200

    Id
    83
    83
    82

    System
    Linux
    Linux
    Linux swap / Solar

    Id
    8e

    System
    Linux LVM

    Id
    8e

    System
    Linux LVM

    Id
    8e

    System
    Linux LVM

    Id
    8e

    System
    Linux LVM

    Disk /dev/sdb: 85.8 GB, 85899345920 bytes


    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10443 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Device Boot
    /dev/sdb1

    Start
    1

    End
    3040

    Blocks
    24418768+

    Disk /dev/sdc: 85.8 GB, 85899345920 bytes


    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10443 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Device Boot
    /dev/sdc1

    Start
    1

    End
    3040

    Blocks
    24418768+

    Disk /dev/sdd: 85.8 GB, 85899345920 bytes


    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10443 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Device Boot
    /dev/sdd1

    Start
    1

    End
    3040

    Blocks
    24418768+

    Disk /dev/sde: 85.8 GB, 85899345920 bytes


    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10443 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Device Boot
    /dev/sde1

    Start
    1

    End
    3040

    Blocks
    24418768+

    Disk /dev/sdf: 85.8 GB, 85899345920 bytes


    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10443 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Disk /dev/sdf doesn't contain a valid partition table
    Now we prepare our new partitions for LVM:

    pvcreate /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1

    server1:~# pvcreate /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1


    Physical volume "/dev/sdb1" successfully created
    Physical volume "/dev/sdc1" successfully created
    Physical volume "/dev/sdd1" successfully created
    Physical volume "/dev/sde1" successfully created
    Let's revert this last action for training purposes:
    pvremove /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1

    server1:~# pvremove /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1


    Labels on physical volume "/dev/sdb1"
    Labels on physical volume "/dev/sdc1"
    Labels on physical volume "/dev/sdd1"
    Labels on physical volume "/dev/sde1"
    Then run

    /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1
    successfully wiped
    successfully wiped
    successfully wiped
    successfully wiped

    pvcreate /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1

    again:
    server1:~#
    Physical
    Physical
    Physical
    Physical
    Now run

    pvcreate /dev/sdb1
    volume "/dev/sdb1"
    volume "/dev/sdc1"
    volume "/dev/sdd1"
    volume "/dev/sde1"

    /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1


    successfully created
    successfully created
    successfully created
    successfully created

    pvdisplay

    to learn about the current state of your physical volumes:


    server1:~# pvdisplay
    --- NEW Physical volume --PV Name
    /dev/sdb1
    VG Name
    PV Size
    23.29 GB
    Allocatable
    NO
    PE Size (KByte)
    0
    Total PE
    0
    Free PE
    0
    Allocated PE
    0
    PV UUID
    G8lu2L-Hij1-NVde-sOKc-OoVI-fadg-Jd1vyU
    --- NEW Physical volume --PV Name
    /dev/sdc1
    VG Name
    PV Size
    23.29 GB

    Allocatable
    PE Size (KByte)
    Total PE
    Free PE
    Allocated PE
    PV UUID

    NO
    0
    0
    0
    0
    40GJyh-IbsI-pzhn-TDRq-PQ3l-3ut0-AVSE4B

    --- NEW Physical volume --PV Name


    /dev/sdd1
    VG Name
    PV Size
    23.29 GB
    Allocatable
    NO
    PE Size (KByte)
    0
    Total PE
    0
    Free PE
    0
    Allocated PE
    0
    PV UUID
    4mU63D-4s26-uL00-r0pO-Q0hP-mvQR-2YJN5B
    --- NEW Physical volume --PV Name
    /dev/sde1
    VG Name
    PV Size
    23.29 GB
    Allocatable
    NO
    PE Size (KByte)
    0
    Total PE
    0
    Free PE
    0
    Allocated PE
    0
    PV UUID
    3upcZc-4eS2-h4r4-iBKK-gZJv-AYt3-EKdRK6

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