[sclug] What to use LVM for

[Tom Dawes-Gamble]

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 16:42 +0000, Alex Butcher wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, John Stumbles wrote:
> 
> > Will there be anything machine-specific I'll wish I'd found out before
> > starting the installation? :-)
> 
> Something I do recommend doing is renaming the physical volume from
> 'Volume00' or whatever to something like '0603300GSEAGhda5' (i.e. 2006,
> March, 300G, Seagate, hda5), so that if you ever host it in a machine that
> already has LVM volumes, you'll hopefully avoid naming clashes.


I don't think you need to do that.  When you do the vgscan to discover
the disk it know that it does not belong to the original Volume00 and so
creates it as Volume01. 

Tom. 


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