[geeks] linux - lvm - fdisk

[Anthony Ortenzi]

Isn't AWS Opsworks just Chef? Someone must have made a chef recipe for
this.
On May 15, 2014 2:38 PM, "Brian Dunbar" <brian.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:

> My goal is to use an EC2 instance (Ubuntu) and mount from two to four EBS
> volumes as a single mount point.
>
> The driver is that size limit on an EBS volume is 1024mb, and we have more
> data to store than that.
>
> (Long range plans are to use S3 as a store for this data, but that's 'in
> the future')
>
> What I envision is provisioning a host, use LVM to setup a volume group,
> containing two EBS volumes, for a 2tb 'disk'.  As needed, I create a new
> volume, add it to the instance, then the VG.
>
> How-tos [1] indicate one needs to format the drive first, using fdisk, set
> partition type to 8e (Linux LVM).
>
> Okay, I can do that, but I'd really prefer to script it.
>
>
> [1] example
>
> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/40702/how-to-manage-and-use-lvm-logical-volume-management-in-ubuntu/
>
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 15 May 2014, at 18:44, Brian Dunbar <brian.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Lame question re: LVM. I want to use mkfs.ext3 to format the disk
> _with_
> > > partition type 8e (lvm).  I.e. have it 'happen' by script, vice running
> > > fdisk manually.
> > >
> > > Can this be done?  man seems to say 'yes' but is short on bold text
> > saying
> > > 'type this in, dummy'
> >
> > I'm not quite sure what your trying to achieve here, so I'm not sure...
> >
> > LVM, as I understand it, exists above the base partition scheme, with
> > partitions being used as physical volumes into which you add volume
> groups
> > and
> > logical volumes. I had to get my head around this to use Xen VMs on a
> > debian
> > server, but I'm by no means an expert.
> >
> > I don't know, are you trying to format a bare metal drive to contain a
> > single
> > a LVM ext3 logical volume?
> > Or, are you trying to remove the LVM junk and format the drive with a
> > single
> > common-or-garden ext 3 partition?
> >
> > --
> >
> > Mark Benson
> >
> > http://DECtec.info
> > Twitter: @DECtecInfo
> > HECnet: STAR69::MARK
> >
> > Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts.
> > _______________________________________________
> > GEEKS:  http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/geeks
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Brian Dunbar
>
> "Display some adaptability"
> _______________________________________________
> GEEKS:  http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/geeks