Re: I am lost with lvm in debian-edu

[Patrick Willam <p.willam@gmx.de>]

Nicolas Pettiaux schrieb:
> I am lost with lvm in debian-edu:
>
> I have started to read the (long) documentation about lvm to
> understand it a little.

I didn't do that. Instead it worked for me to use the following
'strategy':
Using tab-completion, looking at the availible commands, trying the
"*display" ones and digging down into the manpages of the commands
with the most interesting / promising names. ;-)

for physical volume management (i.e. 'real' partitions on harddisk)
	#> pv[tab][tab]
for volume group management (i.e. 'virtual' harddisks made of PVs)
	#> vg[tab][tab]
for logical volume management (i.e. 'virtual' partions inside VGs)
	#> lv[tab][tab]

Dont forget that these are layers upon each other; and upon all
that additionally reside the filesystems "within" LVs.
That said, the logic and all necessary steps shoud become quite
obvious. ;-)

HTH and best wishes,
  Patrick