Can palimpsest disk utility create LVM partition?

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 10/26/2010 08:52 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> On 10/26/2010 08:42 PM, Tim wrote:
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>> On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 19:04 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>>> Palimpsest lists"
>>>
>>> EXT2,3,4, XFS, minix, NTFS, Swap, Empty, and Extended Partition
>>>
>>> So how do I do this as an LVM (and then put down the ext3
>>> partitions....).
>>>
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>> The obvious answer would be by using another tool.  What else do you
>> like using?  Are you happy with using the command line?
>>
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> I can use the command line when it is either something I use a lot (like
> grep!) or I can copy and paste from instructions into a terminal window :)
>
> I don't know of any other tools. I would use yumex to see what is in the
> repo.
>    

Well I read some stuff and the dialog window and realized that I could 
first format it as EXT4 then change it to LVM. That seems to have 
worked. Now to put it in place on the server and setup the LVM partition.

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>> When you get there, I'd use a formatting option that does a proper bad
>> block check, as well.  It'll take ages, but it's better to find out that
>> you've got a bad drive before you start using it.
>>      
> Smart gives the drive a thumbs up. Often the hardware of such devices
> busily mask any bad blocks on the drive so you always come up clean.
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