On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 11:45 -0500, AJ Lewis wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:17:41AM -0400, Ming Zhang wrote: > > I think this is a very common question but i can not find the answer. > > any idea on how to access the partition on these lv since no device > > node? > > > > > > [root@fc3-i386-2 ~]# fdisk /dev/vg1/v1 -l > > > > Disk /dev/vg1/v1: 469 MB, 469762048 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 57 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/vg1/v1p1 1 13 104391 83 Linux > > /dev/vg1/v1p2 14 57 353430 83 Linux > the problem is that we export a LV via iscsi to a remote box and become a scsi disk. so it is partitioned and utilized. then it does have partition on it. even it is exported to a linux box, u possibly will use /dev/sdx1 instead of directly use /dev/sdx, rite? > You don't. Don't put partition tables on LVs. The whole point of using LVM > is you don't need to partition anymore, and your block devices can be dynamic. > If you another block devices, you lvcreate it. If you don't have enough space > in your VG, you add a PV to it, then lvcreate the new block device. Have you > read through the HOWTO referenced below? i can not see this HOWTO, where u referenced it? thx! ming > _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
