From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <38AA49DF.A7F19810@tenure.com> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 00:55:27 -0600 From: Byron Pearce Reply-To: bpearce@tenure.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [linux-lvm] Installation on Debian (LVM Newbie) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@msede.com Pardon the interruption with what I am certain will be considered a trivial question, but I just getting on the Linux LVM bandwagon (taking the leap from the world of Sun and HP). . . I am running a home system with Debian v2.1 and I am trying to determine the best way to get things setup. I have installed the source code into the 2.2.13 kernel (yes, I upgraded it) and compiled all support for LVM into the kernel, as well as installing the LVM software onto the system. So far, so good. When I attempt to run pvcreate as per the LVM-HOWTO, however, it complains as follows: # pvcreate /dev/sda1 pvcreate -- invalid partition type 0x83 for "/dev/sda1" (must be 0x8e) If I am understanding this message correctly, it is instructing me to make certain the the partition type is set to 8E through cfdisk. However, I note that this partition type is not defined (or at least isn't in my version of Linux). Am I observing things correctly or missing something obvious? I am assuming that the only way to correct this is to change that partition type and to reload Linux. If so, that's fine as this is a new system that I am playing with to get working. I assume that I would simply set the partition type on the disk to 8E and then move on. Will Linux boot like this? Or does it require at least a small Linux native partition first? This is a lead into my second question (assuming worst case scenario from above) is more general. I am wondering how the majority of you are setting up LVM on your systems. In a traditional LVM environment (at least on the systems I have worked with), the entire physical disk is given to the LVM and then the file systems are mounted from the logical volumes created in the individual volume groups. So, assuming an 18GB physical SCSI disk, which I have, I would simply create a 18GB "/" partition and give this over to LVM as /dev/sda1, from where I would create swap, /tmp, /opt, /usr, etc. and mount them from within Linux. Is there a gotcha involved that I may be missing? On some systems, you have to leave a small partition out of the LVM to mount the bootstrap O/S from (say, a 20MB partition or so) and then everything else can be under the LVM. I am just trying to make certain that if I have to reload, that I only have to do it once and that I setup the disks correclty. TIA for any insight. -- ==================================================================== Byron Pearce mailto:bpearce@tenure.com Tenure Systems, Inc. Arlington, Texas "It's hard to be a ninja when you wear a beeper."