On Wednesday 03 March 2010 13:29:01 Clive McBarton wrote: > The lvm tools like lvdisplay, vgdisplay, lvs, lvscan, > lvdiskscan expect block devices and do not have the option of using a > file instead of /dev/something. I'd like to use the LVM on the file > without writing it out as a real disk partion. How do I do that?
losetup allows you do treat any file as a block device. /etc/lvm/lvm.conf may need to be modified to pay attention to loop devices (the type created by losetup). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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