lvm and FC5 question

[Brad De Vries]

On 9/11/06, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
>
> If you still have X try using system-config-lvm it may help you to set up
> the lvm
>
> There is another project that has a gui-ized config tool
> http://evms.sourceforge.net/
>
> Reading the man pages for pvcreate:
>
> For  whole disk devices only the partition table must be
>        erased, which will effectively destroy all data on  that  disk.   This
>        can be done by zeroing the first sector with:
>
>        dd if=/dev/zero of=PhysicalVolume bs=512 count=1
>
> I have a feeling that if you don't then it all gets confused as to what
> type of volume/disk it is.
>
> The above said I've played with LVM and I don't seem to have the knack on
> how to use it myself. (the reason I'm running Ubuntu is I toasted my LVM
> setup under FC4 and had to re-install)
>
> --
> James McDonald
> Telarah NSW Australia

Thanks for the suggestion James.  I tried both suggestions;
system-config-lvm and the 'dd' command.  Neither seemed to get me any
further.  I've spent enough hours on this already and have decided to
just re-install.

It's strange that years ago I would have spent days or even weeks
trying to figure this out.  Now, after only a couple of hours of
frustration, I've decided that I'm either too tired or too impatient
to deal with it.  I guess I just expect things like this to simply
work.  I can't wait for the day that they do.

Thanks again for your suggestion.

Later,
Brad.