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Operating Systems Linux Creating file systems (LVM v Multipath) Post 302956452 by fretagi on Wednesday 30th of September 2015 05:46:41 AM
Old 09-30-2015
Creating file systems (LVM v Multipath)

Hi all

I have a system running:
Code:
 uname -o
GNU/Linux

that has already some file systems created:
Code:
 df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_outsystemdb-lv_root
                       50G  2.7G   45G   6% /
tmpfs                  28G   72K   28G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             485M   38M  422M   9% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg_outsystemdb-lv_home
                      198G  171G   17G  91% /home
/dev/mapper/vg01-lvol1
                      394G  342G   33G  92% /oradata

And there is a need to add one more file system of 500Gb, in which the storage admin has already provided me with.

But I see that the other file systems have their volume group with some nomenclature that I am not aware of it, in term of skills, like:
/dev/mapper/vg, but as far as I know to create a new file system I just have to fdisk -l the required LUN, them choose 8e as the partition type, them pvcreate, vgcreate and lastly lvcreate.
But I am not sure this is the correct procedure, because the other file systems present on the system have this /dev/mapper.
Please correct me if I am wrong with my procedure
 

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

NAME
cache_dump - dump cache metadata from device or file to standard output SYNOPSIS
cache_dump [options] {device|file} DESCRIPTION
cache_dump dumps binary cache metadata created by the device-mapper cache target on a device or file to standard output for analysis or postprocessing in XML format. XML formated metadata can be fed into cache_restore (see cache_restore(8)) in order to put it back onto a metadata device (to process by the device-mapper target) or file. -r, --repair Repair the metadata whilst dumping it. -h, --help Print help and exit. -V, --version Output version information and exit. EXAMPLES
Dumps the cache metadata on logical volume /dev/vg/metadata to standard output in XML format: cache_dump /dev/vg/metadata EXAMPLES
Dumps the cache metadata on logical volume /dev/vg/metadata whilst repairing it to standard output in XML format: cache_dump --repair /dev/vg/metadata DIAGNOSTICS
cache_dump returns an exit code of 0 for success or 1 for error. SEE ALSO
cache_check(8) cache_repair(8) cache_restore(8) AUTHOR
Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Heinz Mauelshagen <HeinzM@RedHat.com> Red Hat, Inc. Thin Provisioning Tools CACHE_DUMP(8)
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