I have connected a HD that was a prior system drive (Centos 4.8) and I am not sure of the command line procedures to find out if it is recognized (I believe it is since it present in the GUI), delete all data on it and finally add it to the LVM. I would like to use it as a backup data drive. Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com
Todd Cary wrote:> I have connected a HD that was a prior system drive (Centos 4.8) > and I am not sure of the command line procedures to find out if > it is recognized (I believe it is since it present in the GUI), > delete all data on it and finally add it to the LVM. > > I would like to use it as a backup data drive. > > Todd >either use "lvm ...." command to check, add, etc.. (google or use man page) or use webmin to see and manage all of your drives (amongst other things) on that system from nice and intuitive web config interface. Ljubomir
On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 12:10:41PM -0700, Todd Cary wrote:> I have connected a HD that was a prior system drive (Centos 4.8) > and I am not sure of the command line procedures to find out if > it is recognized (I believe it is since it present in the GUI), > delete all data on it and finally add it to the LVM. > > I would like to use it as a backup data drive.I have a page that might help. (It's not the best page in the world, mostly done as a reference for myself, but....) http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/lvm.html -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Cordelia: Everything has been taken away because Daddy made a little mistake on his taxes... for the last twelve years.
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com> wrote:> I have connected a HD that was a prior system drive (Centos 4.8) > and I am not sure of the command line procedures to find out if > it is recognized (I believe it is since it present in the GUI), > delete all data on it and finally add it to the LVM. > > I would like to use it as a backup data drive. > > Todd > > -- > Ariste Software > Petaluma, CA 94952 > > http://www.aristesoftware.com > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110507/b5893345/attachment-0005.html>
On 05/07/2011 03:10 PM, Todd Cary wrote:> I have connected a HD that was a prior system drive (Centos 4.8) > and I am not sure of the command line procedures to find out if > it is recognized (I believe it is since it present in the GUI), > delete all data on it and finally add it to the LVM. > > I would like to use it as a backup data drive. > > ToddDoes pvscan or vgscan show it? If not, what is the device path and does that fall within the 'filter = []' set in lvm.conf? -- Digimer E-Mail: digimer at alteeve.com AN!Whitepapers: http://alteeve.com Node Assassin: http://nodeassassin.org
Todd Cary wrote:> I have connected a HD that was a prior system drive (Centos 4.8) > and I am not sure of the command line procedures to find out if > it is recognized (I believe it is since it present in the GUI), > delete all data on it and finally add it to the LVM. > > I would like to use it as a backup data drive. > > Todd > >This is an excellent tutorial on LVM. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ Are you planning to join it to an existing Volume Group and then create a LV on it for backup? My preference would be to keep things simple and to aid recovery in the future, maybe just format the disk ext3 for backup. Then it is easy to plug into another box for recovery. But, I'm just guessing how you plan to use it. Ken -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.