i have started putting the hostname in my vg names as well, mainly so that if i have to move the drives to another system for upgrades, crashes, etc, i don't get collisions between the local vg and the one i'm hooking up temporarily. On 04/19/2011 03:23 PM, Mike Seda wrote: > Hi All, > Recently, I came across the new LVM naming convention in RHEL 6. This > convention places the output of "hostname -s" in the VG name. This > doesn't really fit into the way I've previously setup VGs, which was > to create a new VG for each type of disk attached to the system, e.g. > RAID 1 SAS 10K (local), RAID 6 SATA 7.2K (SAN). > > I guess I could modify the naming convention slightly as shown below: > - /dev/vg_`hostname -s`_[0-9][0-9]/lv_{foo|bar} > > Another thought I had was that maybe I don't need a separate VG for > each type of disk since the lvcreate/lvextend commands seem to be able > to create/grow an LV by PV. My understanding is that this would allow > you to skip the step of growing the VG by the PV, right? > > Essentially, I'm just wondering what other folks in my situation are > doing for LVM naming. > > Thanks In Advance, > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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/