On Friday 12 November 2021 12:26:02 Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 12:03:25 -0500 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > Thanks Charles. Sounds like a good idea. I'll see if I can get > > gparted to see them now. It see's it, but its locked, in use by the > > system even if unmounted. Now what? > > Well, if you are talking Any Smith's (and my) advice, I'd do the > following: > > * Umount the partition on the RAID array. > > * Move /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf aside. > > * Put partitions on each of the four drives. Don't bother to put a > file system on any of them. > > * Use the same command line you did before, *except* use the > partitions you just created instead of the drives, to create the RAID > array. > > * Create the LVM stuff you need.
I've only taken one pass at LVM, years ago in early fedora days before I got tired of running redhats lab-rat software, and it was the cause of three or so reinstalls and a total loss of all data each time. So I'm understandably spooky about it. Is it now dependable enough to use on a one box does it all machine? > * Lay down an ext4 file system on logical volumes as needed. > > * Add the LVs to /etc/fstab as needed. Thank you Charles. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
