On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> I have read it but what I am asking is not mentioned.
> I am breaking an LVM which is not having any filesystem on it into 2 parts.
"LVM" stands for Logical Volume Manager. You can't break it up. It is a set
of software. (Well, you can, but then it wouldn't work so good.) Some things
you might be trying to say:
1) a "PV" is a Physical Volume. You add these to to a Volume Group, and
once you do that you can do one of the following.
2) a "VG" is a Volume Group. This you can "break up" into many logical
volumes. Use the lvcreate command to create logical volumes, one
for your filesystem and another for your swap.
3) an "LV" is a Logical Volume. An advanced user might want to use an
LV to simulate a disk, putting a partitional table on it. Usually
this is done by using the LV as a virtual disk for a Virtual Machine,
which then partitions and uses the virtual disk as it pleases.
You could also use fdisk/parted to partition an LV, and kparted to
make the partitions available as separate block devices.
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