tabmow99
November 11th, 2010, 04:23 PM
Hi all,
I have a system that has three 2TB drives in it, and i want to use LVM and put all the space together (it's just a backup server). So I used Ubuntu 10.10 alternate disk to install with LVM. When I did this, it chooses one of the three disks to install to, so the resulting install had LVM using one disk, with all the space allocated to / basically.
Is there a way to install using the alternate disk that would use all 3 disks in one big space? Since I wasn't clear on the install option, i did try this:
fdisk the two other drives (to create lvm partitions)
pvcreate them
vgextend the orig volume group
lvextend it
But once i did all that, lvdisplay shows the "LV Size" as being 6TB, but if i do a "df -h", it is still only 2TB. Rebooting did nothing.
Any ideas or suggestions what i could do?
Thanks very much.
I have a system that has three 2TB drives in it, and i want to use LVM and put all the space together (it's just a backup server). So I used Ubuntu 10.10 alternate disk to install with LVM. When I did this, it chooses one of the three disks to install to, so the resulting install had LVM using one disk, with all the space allocated to / basically.
Is there a way to install using the alternate disk that would use all 3 disks in one big space? Since I wasn't clear on the install option, i did try this:
fdisk the two other drives (to create lvm partitions)
pvcreate them
vgextend the orig volume group
lvextend it
But once i did all that, lvdisplay shows the "LV Size" as being 6TB, but if i do a "df -h", it is still only 2TB. Rebooting did nothing.
Any ideas or suggestions what i could do?
Thanks very much.