----- Digimer <linux@alteeve.com> wrote: > On 11/01/2011 02:39 PM, Dan White wrote: > > Is a logical volume group necessary before one can start making mountable partitions ? > > > > I'm trying to work with a SAN. We were allocated a 10Gb LUN to "play" with. Another admin created a logical volume on the LUN and then made a single partition out of the logical volume. The flow I am familiar with from Red Hat's GUI is to first make a logical volume group, then make partitions in the group that I can adjust in size as necessary. > > > > Are both workflows valid ? > > LVs must be created from VGs. > I agree. Got a documentation reference I can use for backup ? “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) _______________________________________________ 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/
