[mythtv-users] Adding a hard drive, LVM or RAID0
Ryan Steffes
rbsteffes at gmail.com
Thu May 19 19:35:46 UTC 2005
On 5/19/05, Phill Wiggin <wigginp at mantech-wva.com> wrote:
> For whatever reason (random "eeny-meeny-miney-mo" decisionmaking), I
> chose reiserfs. It works fine and I've had no problems with it.
>
> Out of curiosity, what did you mean when you said:
>
> 6) Unmount both the new hard drive and my old video partition, rename
> the logical partition to be the same as my old partition
>
> I'm thinking you just need to change your mount in fstab
>
> /dev/VGforTV/tv /mythtv/tv reiserfs auto 0 0
>
> or something like that... No renaming anything needed.
>
> You'll also need to be sure that lvm is activated at bootup.
>
> Manually:
> vgscan (scans for VGs)
> vgchange -a y (activates the Volume Groups and puts
> them in /dev)
> mount /dev/VGforTV/tv /myth/tv
>
>
> **
>
> In my setup, /myth is on / /myth/tv is a VG /myth/video is a separate VG
>
> /dev/VGforTV/tv /mythtv/tv reiserfs auto 0 0
> /dev/VGforVideo/video /mythtv/video reiserfs auto 0 0
>
> **
>
> I'm at work and getting ready to go home so I'm not being very complete.
> If any of this is confusing, I'd be happy to be more detailed.
>
> --Phill Wiggin
>
> Greg Cope wrote:
>
> >Choose a file system that you can grow, otherwise you will add another
> >volume, but the file system will still be the same size.
> >
How are you manually doing the vgscan & vgchange before the fstab
runs, I assume a script of some sort, but do you have it anywhere in
particular?
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