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Re: LVM and RAID



On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 02:21:54PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2007 22:31, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
 >
> > raid1 mirrors two disks to create one volume.  LVM will then divy up
> > that volume.  So in the installer, set the disk/partition to use as
> > physical volume for software raid, then configure raid.  Then you have
> > md0 which you mark use as physical volume for LVM, then you configure
> > LVM.

> I completed RAID1 installation via installer but without selecting LVM.
> Is it possible to setup LVM once RAID1 is built and system up ?

The problem is that LVM is a layer between the raid and the filesystem.
Short answer: no.  Long answer: yes with more work than just
reinstalling.

Doug.



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