[sclug] What to use LVM for

[Alex Butcher]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Tom Dawes-Gamble wrote:

> 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

(I should have said 'Volume Group' not 'physical volume' here)

>> '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.

IIRC, it's not quite as slick as that. ISTR you end up having to specify
which block devices are members of of the VG. And I'm not sure you'll be
able to bring both VGs online simultaneously without having to rename one.

Also, I live by the KISS principle. :-)

> Tom.

Best Regards,
Alex.
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