Florin Iucha wrote: >Hello! > >I have two SCSI harddisks of 4.5 GB each and I want to install Linux on them >on top of LVM. > >I want to put / /boot /var /home /usr/local on the first disk and /usr on the >second one.At the same time I want to have all partitions (except /boot) on >LVM so I can extend/snapshot them. > >I can take the obvious route of creating a PV on each of the harddisks and >putting them in the same VG and then splitting the VG into LV. But I want >to make sure /usr gets on the second disk and all /usr and / get allocated >at the beginning of the PV. > >I can simulate this by creating the first LVs than a LV that will fill up the >first PV then the LV for /usr... But this is ugly and I am not sure is >guaranteed to work. > >Any "smart" solution to this problem? Any plans to implement such a feature >in lvcreate? > i think it's already implemented, there should be an option which tells lvcreate which PV's to use for the LV you are creating . see the man page to lvcreate or lvcreate --help > >Thank you, >florin >
