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From: Ken Fuchs <kfuchs@winternet.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Totally confused
Date: Wed Dec 31 10:11:02 2003	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200312311613.hBVGDNr16271@ecstasy.winternet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031231121144.9792.qmail@web13507.mail.yahoo.com> (message from Stuart Felenstein on Wed, 31 Dec 2003 04:11:44 -0800 (PST))

Stuart Felenstein wrote:

>I thought I understood LVM and set it up correctly on
>my /dev/hda3.  Somethings is wrong though.  Here is
>the output from lvdisplay:

>LV Name              /dev/Volume00/videos
>VG Name              Volume00
>LV Write Access      read/write
>LV Status            available
>LV#                  1
>#open                1
>LV Size              68.67 GB
>Current LE           17579
>Allocated LE         17579
>Allocation           next free
>Read ahead sectors   1024
>Block device         58:0 

Output from other LVM display utilities might be useful.
The -v option will provide more information from many
LVM commands.

>After the LV was created I did
>mkfs ext3 -m 0 -T largefile /dev/Volume00/videos

You probably meant "mkfs.ext3" rather than "mkfs ext3".

>Oddities (to me), I try to cd /dev/Volume00/videos - I
>get a no directory.  cd to /dev/Volume00 is
>acccessible and can be written to.  
>I assumed that i was going to have a videos partition
>with 68.67 GB available.  It looks like I have about
>10 megs or something like that as 5 minutes of mpgeg
>gave me a "device out of space".

The output from "mount" and "df -k" might be helpful.

>This is lvm 1.08 , straight from kernel 2.4.23
>builtin.

>Am I just not doing something correct here?

Could you go into more detail about the commands
(such as lvcreate) and options you used?

Sincerely,

Ken Fuchs <kfuchs@winternet.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-31 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-30 21:21 [linux-lvm] booting a dm+lvm2 kernel Kjartan Reynir Hauksson
2003-12-31  3:35 ` Luca Berra
2003-12-31  6:13   ` [linux-lvm] Totally confused Stuart Felenstein
2003-12-31 10:11     ` Ken Fuchs [this message]
2003-12-31 11:09     ` Lance Dillon
2004-01-01 11:29       ` Stuart Felenstein

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