[sclug] What to use LVM for

[Andy Smith]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 11:11:57PM +0000, Tom Dawes-Gamble wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 16:42 +0000, Alex Butcher wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, John Stumbles wrote:
> > 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. 

If you put the disks in a machine with a VG already called Volume00
then things can get a bit confused.

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