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How to mount LVM volume on RedHat ES 5.6

Building a Aspera/FTP server on Linux RedHat ES 5.6. The server has two virtual drives. A RAID 1 VD for the OS and a RAID 5 VD for file storage.

[root@new-host ~]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
132902128 2155140 123887008 2% /
/dev/sda1 101086 16050 79817 17% /boot
tmpfs 6164244 0 6164244 0% /dev/shm
[root@new-host ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 146.1 GB, 146163105792 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17769 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 17769 142625070 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 1497.1 GB, 1497198755840 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182024 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 182024 1462107748+ 8e Linux LVM
[root@new-host ~]# pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sda2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 136.00G 0 <======== OS virtual drive
/dev/sdb1 Storage lvm2 a- 1.36T 1.36T <======== File Stoarge

I need help on getting the "Storage" volume to auto mount and how to access it within the file system

cat /etc/fstab

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

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arnold

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expert_tanmay

mount /dev/my_volume_group/my_logical_volume /mnt

cheers

andersenks

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Thanks Arnold,
I was able to get the first two commands to work...

[root@new-host ~]# pvcreate -ff /dev/sdb1 <=== had to add -ff for it to work
Really INITIALIZE physical volume "/dev/sdb1" of volume group "Storage" [y/n]? y
WARNING: Forcing physical volume creation on /dev/sdb1 of volume group "Storage"
Physical volume "/dev/sdb1" successfully created
[root@new-host ~]# vgcreate Storage /dev/sdb1
Volume group "Storage" successfully created

For the last command how do I designate the entire virtual drive to it (what syntax?) And what would be the "LogicalName"?
[root@new-host ~]# lvcreate -L "??????" -n "????????? Storage

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Bxoz

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andersenks

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I don't see anything about "lvolmedia" in my config.

Should it be,,, lvcreate -l +100%FREE Storage -n Storage ??

Bxoz

lvolmedia is the name of the logical volume so you can call it as you want
But may be it's a better idea to pick a different name than your volume group some thing like StorageLv ...

If you want to fill all the free space left on a volume group, use the next command:
lvcreate -l +100%FREE Storage -n StorageLv
Should be your your command

After that you can check with lvdisplay

mohansahu

Hi,

create lvm partion from volume group & mount it

lvcreate -L +100M -n lv00 /dev/sdb1

in ur case i think lvoo is lvm partion name & /dev/sdb1 is volume group.

after successfully created logical volume lv00 then formate it.

mke2fs -j /dev/sdb1/lv00 ,now define mount point to use this partitions

mount /dev/sdb1/lv00 /data/lv00

mount this partitions permanently in /etc/fstab

here make entry of newly created lvm partition like

/dev/sdb1/lv00 /data/lv00 ext3 defaults 0 0

Cheers,
MS

andersenks

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Got it to work, thanks for all the input...

[root@transfer ~]# mount
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-transfer on /transfer type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
[root@transfer ~]#

andersenks

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Thank You