Comments on: Logical Volume Manager Cheatsheet http://martin.ankerl.com/2008/02/05/logical-volume-manager-cheatsheet/ No movement is faster than no movement Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:12:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Linux 2 Aix Blog » Blog Archive » Top 30 Linux Command Line Cheat Sheets http://martin.ankerl.com/2008/02/05/logical-volume-manager-cheatsheet/comment-page-1/#comment-5612 Linux 2 Aix Blog » Blog Archive » Top 30 Linux Command Line Cheat Sheets Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:03:45 +0000 http://martin.ankerl.com/2008/02/05/logical-volume-manager-cheatsheet/#comment-5612 [...] Logical Volume Manager Cheat Sheet [...] [...] Logical Volume Manager Cheat Sheet [...]

]]> By: Christian http://martin.ankerl.com/2008/02/05/logical-volume-manager-cheatsheet/comment-page-1/#comment-1896 Christian Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:14:17 +0000 http://martin.ankerl.com/2008/02/05/logical-volume-manager-cheatsheet/#comment-1896 Martin, one usefull addition could be to mention certain switches when creating LV: lvcreate -l 100%VG -n mynew_lv mynew_vg The -l switch has some meta options for adding 100% of the Volume Group (VG), or 100%FREE to allocate all of the free space. Otherwise you have to figure out how many extends a volume has or how much left, etc. These meta option are much easier to remember (at least for me) :) thanks again! Martin,

one usefull addition could be to mention certain switches when creating LV:
lvcreate -l 100%VG -n mynew_lv mynew_vg

The -l switch has some meta options for adding 100% of the Volume Group (VG), or 100%FREE to allocate all of the free space.

Otherwise you have to figure out how many extends a volume has or how much left, etc. These meta option are much easier to remember (at least for me)
:)

thanks again!

]]> By: Martin Ankerl http://martin.ankerl.com/2008/02/05/logical-volume-manager-cheatsheet/comment-page-1/#comment-1183 Martin Ankerl Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:59:18 +0000 http://martin.ankerl.com/2008/02/05/logical-volume-manager-cheatsheet/#comment-1183 Hi christian, glad you like it :) Using only command line tools for LVM is really quite easy, the only obstactle is reading through the manual (which is very good). Hi christian, glad you like it :) Using only command line tools for LVM is really quite easy, the only obstactle is reading through the manual (which is very good).

]]> By: Christian http://martin.ankerl.com/2008/02/05/logical-volume-manager-cheatsheet/comment-page-1/#comment-1174 Christian Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:26:26 +0000 http://martin.ankerl.com/2008/02/05/logical-volume-manager-cheatsheet/#comment-1174 Thanks Martin, that was just what I was looking for :) I had been too lazy about it to bother to figure it out :shame: But now I can safely say goodbye to runlevel 5 :byebye: Thanks Martin, that was just what I was looking for :) I had been too lazy about it to bother to figure it out :shame: But now I can safely say goodbye to runlevel 5
:byebye:

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