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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Create volume using LVM over 2 physical disks Post 302728241 by Scott on Wednesday 7th of November 2012 01:54:53 PM
Old 11-07-2012
I don't see the point, really, in partitioning a physical volume in this way. You either use LVM or you don't. I also don't remember the last time I used fdisk since using LVM!

Why not just give sdb over to the logical volume manager and create logical volumes for u01, u02 and u03? That's what LVM is for. fdisk is, IMO, archaic and past its time.

Now I need to shut down my VM, add a disk and try to remember how to use fdisk!. BRB Smilie
 

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VGSCAN(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 VGSCAN(8)

NAME
vgscan - scan all disks for volume groups and rebuild caches SYNOPSIS
vgscan [-d|--debug] [-h|-?|--help] [--ignorelockingfailure] [--mknodes] [-P|--partial] [-v|--verbose] DESCRIPTION
vgscan scans all SCSI, (E)IDE disks, multiple devices and a bunch of other disk devices in the system looking for LVM physical volumes and volume groups. Define a filter in lvm.conf(5) to restrict the scan to avoid a CD ROM, for example. In LVM2, vgscans take place automatically; but you might still need to run one explicitly after changing hardware. OPTIONS
See lvm(8) for common options. --mknodes Also checks the LVM special files in /dev that are needed for active logical volumes and creates any missing ones and removes unused ones. --cache Scan devices for LVM physical volumes and volume groups and instruct the lvmetad daemon to update its cached state accordingly. SEE ALSO
lvm(8), vgcreate(8), vgchange(8) Sistina Software UK LVM TOOLS 2.02.105(2)-RHEL7 (2014-03-26) VGSCAN(8)
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