How to install LVM partition?

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Sat Apr 1 17:02:10 UTC 2006


On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Paul Smith wrote:

> On 4/1/06, J. K. Cliburn <jcliburn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Run these commands as root.
>>
>> vgdisplay -v
>>
>>> From that, determine the correct name for your LV/VG.
>>
>> Then run
>>
>> vgchange -a y
>> mount -t ext3 /dev/mapper/VolGroupXX-LogVolYY /mnt
>>
>> Where XX and YY were discovered from the vgdisplay command.
>
> On FC4,
>
> # vgdisplay -v
> bash: vgdisplay: command not found
> #

Did you become root using "su" or "su -"?   If the former, the problem 
may be that /usr/sbin is not in your path.  Is the lvm2 RPM installed?

>
> Paul
>
>
>

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