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Copyright © 2006 Rackable Systems, Inc
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| Revision History | ||
|---|---|---|
| Revision 0.19 | 2006-11-27 | ajl |
| Clarified full snapshot conditions in Section 8, “Snapshots” and Section 4.1, “Create the snapshot volume” and added a note about resizing the origin of a snapshot; Fixed Rackable copyright; Fixed e-mail address | ||
| Revision 0.18 | 2006-11-27 | ajl |
| Clarify whole disk usage in Section 1, “Initializing disks or disk partitions”; Updated copyright; Updated e-mail address | ||
| Revision 0.17 | 2005-10-03 | ajl |
| Added FAQ entry for max size of LVs in LVM2; Did some cleanup of "Recover physical volume metadata" section; Updated e-mail address | ||
| Revision 0.16 | 2005-07-15 | ajl |
| Added lvm2 boot-time scripts info; Added "Recover physical volume metadata" section - thanks to Maximilian Attems for the patch | ||
| Revision 0.15 | 2005-06-09 | ajl |
| Removed references to xfs_freeze - it is no longer needed; Updated snapshots subsection in Anatomy of LVM section; Added a couple entries to the LVM2 FAQ; Fixed a couple typos | ||
| Revision 0.14 | 2004-10-06 | ajl |
| Added reference to lvm2_createinitrd in source tree; Adjusted lvcreate example slightly; Added 'vgchange -ay' in 'Moving a volume group to another system' recipe | ||
| Revision 0.13 | 2004-08-16 | ajl |
| Clarify symlink farm description; Fix dm control device major number; Remove /boot from vg in small lvm setup example; Add notes about /boot and / on LVM; Remove outdated link; | ||
| Revision 0.12 | 2004-06-07 | ajl |
| Updated LVM2 FAQ entries | ||
| Revision 0.11 | 2004-05-03 | ajl |
| Updated LVM2 FAQ entries | ||
| Revision 0.10 | 2004-04-22 | ajl |
| removed -print0 from find command after receiving reports that it doesn't work | ||
| Revision 0.9 | 2004-04-16 | ajl |
| Added -print0 to find command before piping it to cpio; Changed vgimport command line for LVM 2; Added ext3 to the ext2 resize section; Updated FAQ; Updated Links section | ||
| Revision 0.8 | 2004-02-25 | ajl |
| Updated CVS locations and FTP links; Added section on extending a JFS filesystem; Fixed typos - Ran aspell against document | ||
| Revision 0.7 | 2004-02-16 | ajl |
| Updated to include LVM 2 and device mapper information; Updated email addresses; Updated copyright; Added FAQ section; Added document license; Updated to docbook 4.2 | ||
| Revision 0.6 | 2003-12-09 | ajl |
| Updated for LVM 1.0.8; fixed broken link; Clarified redhat init script section; | ||
| Revision 0.5 | 2003-02-10 | ajl |
| Updated Redhat initscript information for 7.0 and above; Added information on removing a partition table from a disk if pvcreate fails; Default PE size is 32MB now; Updated method for snapshotting under XFS. | ||
| Revision 0.4 | 2002-12-16 | ajl |
| Updated for LVM 1.0.6 | ||
| Revision 0.3 | 2002-09-16 | ajl |
| removed example pvmove from Command Operations section - we now just point to the more detailed recipe on pvmove that contains various warnings and such | ||
| Revision 0.2 | 2002-09-11 | ajl |
| Updated for LVM 1.0.5 and converted to DocBook XML 4.1.2. | ||
| Revision 0.1 | 2002-04-28 | gf |
| Initial conversion from Sistina's LaTeX source and import to tLDP in LinuxDoc format. | ||
Abstract
This document describes how to build, install, and configure LVM for Linux. A basic description of LVM is also included. This version of the HowTo is for LVM 2 with device-mapper, as well as LVM 1.0.8.
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