[wellylug] LVM and file sytems

andrej at paradise.net.nz andrej at paradise.net.nz
Tue Apr 8 16:06:51 NZST 2008


Quoting E Chalaron :

> Hi there
Hi!

> Might be a simple question as usual:
> I have 3 discs in LVM, 2 are ext3 1 is XFS. I'd like to reformat the 
> ext3 to XFS and add the third one to my volume.

Unless I've gotten the basic concept all wrong you'd
add disks to an LVM, and then partition the volume,
and format the partitions.  Not the other way round?

But then I've never actually made use of LVM, and 
can't claim in-depth knowledge ...

> Thanks
> E
-- cheers,
   Andrej




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