Stuart Felenstein wrote: >I thought I understood LVM and set it up correctly on >my /dev/hda3. Somethings is wrong though. Here is >the output from lvdisplay: >LV Name /dev/Volume00/videos >VG Name Volume00 >LV Write Access read/write >LV Status available >LV# 1 >#open 1 >LV Size 68.67 GB >Current LE 17579 >Allocated LE 17579 >Allocation next free >Read ahead sectors 1024 >Block device 58:0 Output from other LVM display utilities might be useful. The -v option will provide more information from many LVM commands. >After the LV was created I did >mkfs ext3 -m 0 -T largefile /dev/Volume00/videos You probably meant "mkfs.ext3" rather than "mkfs ext3". >Oddities (to me), I try to cd /dev/Volume00/videos - I >get a no directory. cd to /dev/Volume00 is >acccessible and can be written to. >I assumed that i was going to have a videos partition >with 68.67 GB available. It looks like I have about >10 megs or something like that as 5 minutes of mpgeg >gave me a "device out of space". The output from "mount" and "df -k" might be helpful. >This is lvm 1.08 , straight from kernel 2.4.23 >builtin. >Am I just not doing something correct here? Could you go into more detail about the commands (such as lvcreate) and options you used? Sincerely, Ken Fuchs <kfuchs@winternet.com> _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/