Chapter 13. Recipes
- Table of Contents
- 13.1. Setting up LVM on three SCSI disks
- 13.1.1. Preparing the disks
- 13.1.2. Setup a Volume Group
- 13.1.3. Creating the Logical Volume
- 13.1.4. Create the File System
- 13.1.5. Test the File System
- 13.2. Setting up LVM on three SCSI disks with striping
- 13.2.1. Preparing the disk partitions
- 13.2.2. Setup a Volume Group
- 13.2.3. Creating the Logical Volume
- 13.2.4. Create the File System
- 13.2.5. Test the File System
- 13.3. Add a new disk to a multi-disk SCSI system
- 13.3.1. Current situation
- 13.3.2. Prepare the disk partitions
- 13.3.3. Add the new disks to the volume groups
- 13.3.4. Extend the file systems
- 13.3.5. Remount the extended volumes
- 13.4. Taking a Backup Using Snapshots
- 13.4.1. Create the snapshot volume
- 13.4.2. Mount the snapshot volume
- 13.4.3. Do the backup
- 13.4.4. Remove the snapshot
- 13.5. Removing an Old Disk
- 13.6. Moving a volume group to another system
- 13.6.1. Unmount the file system
- 13.6.2. Mark the volume group inactive
- 13.6.3. Export the volume group
- 13.6.4. Import the volume group
- 13.6.5. Activate the volume group
- 13.6.6. Mount the file system
- 13.7. Splitting a volume group
- 13.7.1. Determine free space
- 13.7.2. Move data off the disks to be used
- 13.7.3. Create the new volume group
- 13.7.4. Remove remaining volume
- 13.7.5. Create new logical volume
- 13.7.6. Make a file system on the volume
- 13.7.7. Mount the new volume
- 13.8. Converting a root filesystem to LVM 1
- 13.8.1. Boot single user
- 13.8.2. Run Parted
- 13.8.3. Reboot
- 13.8.4. Verify kernel config options
- 13.8.5. Adjust partition type
- 13.8.6. Set up LVM 1 for the new scheme
- 13.8.7. Create the Filesystem
- 13.8.8. Update /etc/fstab
- 13.8.9. Create an LVM 1 initial RAM disk
- 13.8.10. Update /etc/lilo.conf
- 13.8.11. Run LILO to write the new boot sector
- 13.8.12. Reboot to lvm
- 13.8.13. Add remainder of disk
- 13.9. Recover physical volume metadata
This section details several different "recipes" for setting up lvm. The hope is that the reader will adapt these recipes to their own system and needs.