Hi Gene,
yes that process is "a little" bad documented.
You habe completet most of the needed steps already, now you have to use
lvcreate to get
a useable volume using all the space in your volume-group.
hope it helps.
Christoph
Am 08.03.2025 um 14:04 schrieb gene heskett:
On 3/7/25 23:10, Pieter Bowman wrote:
Try using a gpt partition table, in fdisk the command "g", will create an empty
gpt partition table.
Then you should be able to create a partition for the whole drive.
Done that for /dev/sde making it /dev/sde1, then pvcreated /dev/sda, /dec/sdb,
/dev/sdc and /dev/sdd, the first 4.
Then:root@amanda:/etc/lvm# vgcreate amandatapes /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc
/dev/sdd
Volume group "amandatapes" successfully created
except I can't find it. How do I "mount" it for use?? its not visible in /dev
nor the / filesystem..
root@amanda:/etc/lvm# vgscan
Found volume group "amandatapes" using metadata type lvm2
S/b something named amandatapes with 14.something TiB capacity
So it looks legit but its invisible??
I'd also nominate this as the blindingly brightest example of the most obtuse man pages ever. So I'm likely screwing
this up and destroying a kilobuck worth of drives.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
