[mythtv-users] I Added two 320 GB hard drives to my system, but I cant use them.LVM Problem.

[Nick Rosier]

On 6/9/06, Mat Kyne <matkyne at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > > My wife told me that we needed to put our entire DVD library on Myth TV.
> >So
> > > I got two 320 GB drives, and a PCI-IDE adapter and installed the new
> >drives.
> > > Before this I had  two 200 GB drives set up for dual boot, with 7
> >partitions
> > > on hda, with about 120 GB for use in LVM with hdb, giving me a logical
> > > volume of about 320 GB. What I would like to do is extend the Logical
> >Volume
> > > to include two  320 GB drives. (one TerraByte - - Wa hoo!).  Here is the
> > > problem. Everything that I have learned about Linux is because of Myth
> >TV.
> > > (so I'm not a total Noob, more like a Nubian . . .) When I installed FC4
> >I
> > > used the Disk Druid to partition my hdd's. I have no idea how to get
> >this to
> > > work, I need a recipe, AKA step by step instructions. I have searched
> >the
> > > lists, and used Google, and I am coming here almost as a last resort. If
> > > someone could either explaine it to me or point me in the righ direction
> > > that would be great!
> > >
> > > Here is all the information that I think you might need.
> > >
> > > [root at localhost ~]# fdisk -l
> > >
> > > Disk /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
> > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
> > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > >
> > >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > > /dev/hda1   *           1         637     5116671    7  HPFS/NTFS
> > > /dev/hda2             638         650      104422+  83  Linux
> > > /dev/hda3             651        5112    35841015    b  W95 FAT32
> > > /dev/hda4            5113       24321   154296292+   5  Extended
> > > /dev/hda5            5113        6387    10241406   83  Linux
> > > /dev/hda6            6388        6452      522081   82  Linux swap /
> >Solaris
> > > /dev/hda7            6453       24321   143532711   8e  Linux LVM
> > >
> > > Disk /dev/hdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
> > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
> > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > >
> > >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > > /dev/hdb1   *           1       24321   195358401   8e  Linux LVM
> > >
> > > Disk /dev/hde: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
> > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
> > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > >
> > >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > > /dev/hde1               1       38913   312568641   8e  Linux LVM
> > >
> > > Disk /dev/hdg: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
> > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
> > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > >
> > >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > > /dev/hdg1               1       38913   312568641   8e  Linux LVM
> > >
> > > [root at localhost ~]# df -h
> > > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > > /dev/hda5             9.5G  4.4G  4.7G  49% /
> > > /dev/hda2              99M   13M   81M  14% /boot
> > > /dev/shm              252M     0  252M   0% /dev/shm
> > > /dev/hda3              35G  2.8G   32G   9% /share
> > > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> > >                       324G  231G   93G  72% /video
> > >
> > > [root at localhost ~]# lvm lvdisplay
> > >   --- Logical volume ---
> > >   LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> > >   VG Name                VolGroup00
> > >   LV UUID                s2l2DR-TjYC-BVBP-cj9n-6Tq5-9GlP-tMrp16
> > >   LV Write Access        read/write
> > >   LV Status              available
> > >   # open                 1
> > >   LV Size                323.09 GB
> > >   Current LE             10339
> > >   Segments               2
> > >   Allocation             inherit
> > >   Read ahead sectors     0
> > >   Block device           253:0
> > > [root at localhost ~]# lvscan
> > >   ACTIVE            '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' [323.09 GB] inherit
> > >
> > >
> >Can you post the output of pvs?
>
>
> [root at localhost ~]# pvs
>   /dev/cdrom: open failed: No medium found
>   PV         VG         Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
>   /dev/hda7  VolGroup00 lvm2 a-   136.88G      0
>   /dev/hdb1  VolGroup00 lvm2 a-   186.28G  64.00M
>   /dev/hde1  VolGroup00 lvm2 a-   298.06G 298.06G
>   /dev/hdg1  VolGroup00 lvm2 a-   298.06G 298.06G
> [root at localhost ~]#

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ and
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html

N.