04-02-2013
I have found this by typing "mksysb ignite linux pvcreate" into a search engine:-
UNIXguide.net ( AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, LINUX, SOLARIS & Tru64)
It's not bad, but a bit out of date now. It gives a you starter I suppose.
Probably the most important thing to understand is that there is another layer to disk management. In a proper OS such as AIX, you would see the disk after
cfgmgr and make/extend your volume groups with
mkvg or
extendvg respectively. For Linux though, you step back to a DOS world initially.
There is the lovely
fdisk to slice you disks. You are probably best defiining them as a single whole-disk slice of type
8e which denotes Linux LVM. Then run a
pvcreate after which you can
vgcreate or
vgextend and finally use LV commands to build filesystems.
I hope that this gets you started. I'm on the same insane path myself.
So far, there is no
mksysb equivalent.
Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
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vgextend
VGEXTEND(8) System Manager's Manual VGEXTEND(8)
NAME
vgextend - add physical volumes to a volume group
SYNOPSIS
vgextend [-A|--autobackup y|n] [-d|--debug] [-h|-?|--help] [--restoremissing] [-f|--force] [-t|--test] [-v|--verbose] [ PHYSICAL DEVICE
OPTIONS ] VolumeGroupName PhysicalDevicePath [PhysicalDevicePath...]
DESCRIPTION
vgextend allows you to add one or more initialized physical volumes ( see pvcreate(8) ) to an existing volume group to extend it in size.
Moreover, it allows you to re-add a physical volume that has gone missing previously, due to a transient device failure, without re-ini-
tialising it. Use vgextend --restoremissing to that effect.
If PhysicalDevicePath was not previously configured for LVM with pvcreate (8), the device will be initialized with the same default values
used with pvcreate. If non-default pvcreate values are are desired, they may be given on the commandline with the same options as pvcre-
ate. See PHYSICAL DEVICE OPTIONS for available options. Note that the restore-related options such as --restorefile, --uuid, and --physi-
calvolumesize are not available. If a restore operation is needed, use pvcreate (8) and vgcfgrestore (8).
OPTIONS
See lvm for common options.
PHYSICAL DEVICE OPTIONS
The following options are available for initializing physical devices in the volume group. These options are further described in the
pvcreate man page.
-f, --force
-y, --yes
-Z, --zero y|n
--labelsector sector
--metadatasize size
[--metadataignorey|n]
--pvmetadatacopies copies
--dataalignment alignment
--dataalignmentoffset alignment_offset
Examples
"vgextend vg00 /dev/sda4 /dev/sdn1" tries to extend the existing volume group "vg00" by the new physical volumes (see pvcreate(8) )
"/dev/sdn1" and /dev/sda4".
SEE ALSO
lvm(8), vgcreate(8), vgreduce(8), pvcreate(8)
Sistina Software UK LVM TOOLS 2.02.95(2) (2012-03-06) VGEXTEND(8)