Logical Volume Vs HDD

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Apr 10 07:20:28 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 23:14 +0200, Ali Helmy wrote:
> Hey mates,
> 
> Is it possible to create a single Logical Volume partition on two (or
> more) HDDs? I mean, for the user it would all be mounted under the /,
> but still it would span the space of both HDDs to make it bigger in
> size... 
> 
> I am planning on installing FC4 to my PC and then upgrading it to FC5,
> and it would be great if the LV would just span both my HDDs...

Yes, it's possible and it's one of LVM's main features to create this
possibility. You should be able to set this up in the installer by
creating an LVM Physical Volume partition on both drives and then
assigning both physical volumes to the same logical volume.

Paul.




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