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| Newer page: | version 7 | Last edited on Thursday, January 15, 2004 11:18:29 am | by KevinMc | Revert |
| Older page: | version 6 | Last edited on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:13:58 pm | by DanielLawson | Revert |
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@
First, run vgscan:
# vgscan
vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created
- vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group
+ vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group[4]
This creates a volume group descriptor area (VGDA) at the start of the disks.
# pvcreate /dev/sda4
pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/sda4" successfully created
@@ -106,4 +106,5 @@
[1] __PV__: Physical Volume; a disc or a partition on a disc.
[2] __VG__: Volume Group; a group of one-or-more physical volumes across which you get a "virtual disk", a space to create logical volumes in.
[3] __LV__: Logical Volume; something you eventually create an FS on.
+[4] To create a __VGDA__ (Volume Group Descriptor Area) Backup use !vgcfgbackup(8) regularly
