Lvm Configuration - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 3 System Administration Manual

LVM Configuration
LVM can be configured during the graphical installation process or during a kickstart installation. You
can use the utilities from the
focus on using Disk Druid during installation to complete this task.
Read Chapter 4 Logical Volume Manager (LVM) first to learn about LVM. An overview of the steps
required to configure LVM:
Create physical volumes from the hard drives.
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Create volume groups from the physical volumes.
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Create logical volumes from the volume groups and assign the logical volumes mount points.
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Note
You can only edit LVM volume groups in GUI installation mode. In text installation mode, you can
assign mount points to existing logical volumes.
To create a logical volume group with logical volumes during installation:
1. On the Disk Partitioning Setup screen, select Manually partition with Disk Druid.
2. Select New.
3. Select physical volume (LVM) from the File System Type pulldown menu as shown in
Figure 13-1.
Figure 13-1. Creating a Physical Volume
4. You will not be able to enter a mount point (you will be able to do that once you have created
your volume group).
5. A physical volume must be constrained to one drive. For Allowable Drives, select the drive
on which the physical volume will be created. If you have multiple drives, all drives will be
selected, and you must deselect all but one drive.
package to create your LVM configuration, but these instructions
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Chapter 13.