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From: Jordi Prats <jprats@cesca.es>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM on a fake disk
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 22:40:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <465C8FCE.2050800@cesca.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <465BD7FE.7080501@gmail.com>

Thank you! I did it this way and it worked perfectly!

Jordi

David Robinson wrote:
> Jordi Prats wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> How can I define voluem groups and logical volumes using a disk image
>> on a file that will be the root filesystem of another machine (not the
>> one that is defining them)?
> 
> The link below provides some details which may help. You can use losetup
> to associate a loop device with a regular file, then treat it as you
> would to a normal block device.
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Fedora7VirtQuickStart#head-498c8bbe74fd334cf63a4f1f918be74c726238dd
> 
> 
> ie:
> 
> # create a sparse file to use as the block device in the guest
> dd if=/dev/zero of=disk1.img seek=8096 bs=1M count=0
> 
> # setup a loopback device
> losetup /dev/loop0 disk1.img
> 
> /dev/loop0 can now be used like a normal block device. If you partition
> the device thou it's slightly different - you need to use kpartx to make
> the partitions usable.
> 
> ie:
> 
> # create a partition table on the device (/boot cannot be on an LVM volume)
> fdisk /dev/loop0
> 
> # make the partitions visible (they will appear as /dev/mapper/loop0pX,
> where X is a partition number)
> kpartx -a /dev/loop0
> 
> # then you can use LVM on the devices
> pvcreate /dev/mapper/loop0p1
> 
> The LVM's point of view there is nothing special that needs to be done
> other than scanning for the volume groups (vgscan) and
> activating/deactivating them (vgchange -ay <vg>/ vgchange -an <vg>).
> 
> Dave
> 
> _______________________________________________
> 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/
> 
> 

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      reply	other threads:[~2007-05-29 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-29  7:08 [linux-lvm] LVM on a fake disk Jordi Prats
2007-05-29  7:36 ` David Robinson
2007-05-29 20:40   ` Jordi Prats [this message]

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