On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 06:25:40PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:09 PM, S Scharf <ss11...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Mathieu Malaterre > > <mathieu.malate...@gmail.com> wrote: [...] > >> For the first time I am trying to install debian on a system with > >> multiple disk. I was hoping that the debian installed would be kind > >> enough with me to as to propose to group all those physical volume > >> into a single LVM group. So that I could just do as usual and spli > >> this LVM volume group. > >> > >> Could someone please let me know how to do that ? I think I should > >> be able to simply group those disk into a single LVM group (and then > >> later resize as needed). > >> [..] > > I've never tried that but you should be able to do it from an expert install > > with the > > manual partition option > > No that was a user-mistake. You should leave the installer do a first > 'guided partitioning', then you have access to the software RAID > partionning. Then for each disk that is marked 'FREE SPACE' you need > to select it and state 'use for RAID'. > Once all physical volume are setup as RAID, select the RAID entry > (should be the first before the physical disk), then setup your LVM > volume group on it.
So far as I know, RAID is not strictly needed. You can add physical volumes to a volume group directly. Whether the install supports this or not, I don't know. But if you want pure LVM you could certainly use the one disk to install with just LVM and then add the second disk later after the installation. > > I cannot believe this is free software :) Indeed! A
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