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Recipes</H1 ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >13.1. <A HREF="recipethreescsi.html" >Setting up LVM on three SCSI disks</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >13.1.1. <A HREF="recipethreescsi.html#AEN1056" >Preparing the disks</A ></DT ><DT >13.1.2. <A HREF="recipethreescsi.html#AEN1066" >Setup a Volume Group</A ></DT ><DT >13.1.3. <A HREF="recipethreescsi.html#AEN1078" >Creating the Logical Volume</A ></DT ><DT >13.1.4. <A HREF="recipethreescsi.html#AEN1085" >Create the File System</A ></DT ><DT >13.1.5. <A HREF="recipethreescsi.html#AEN1091" >Test the File System</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >13.2. <A HREF="recipethreescsistripe.html" >Setting up LVM on three SCSI disks with striping</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >13.2.1. <A HREF="recipethreescsistripe.html#AEN1106" >Preparing the disk partitions</A ></DT ><DT >13.2.2. <A HREF="recipethreescsistripe.html#AEN1116" >Setup a Volume Group</A ></DT ><DT >13.2.3. <A HREF="recipethreescsistripe.html#AEN1128" >Creating the Logical Volume</A ></DT ><DT >13.2.4. <A HREF="recipethreescsistripe.html#AEN1138" >Create the File System</A ></DT ><DT >13.2.5. <A HREF="recipethreescsistripe.html#AEN1144" >Test the File System</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >13.3. <A HREF="recipeadddisk.html" >Add a new disk to a multi-disk SCSI system</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >13.3.1. <A HREF="recipeadddisk.html#AEN1155" >Current situation</A ></DT ><DT >13.3.2. <A HREF="recipeadddisk.html#AEN1164" >Prepare the disk partitions</A ></DT ><DT >13.3.3. <A HREF="recipeadddisk.html#AEN1199" >Add the new disks to the volume groups</A ></DT ><DT >13.3.4. <A HREF="recipeadddisk.html#AEN1209" >Extend the file systems</A ></DT ><DT >13.3.5. <A HREF="recipeadddisk.html#AEN1221" >Remount the extended volumes</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >13.4. <A HREF="snapshots_backup.html" >Taking a Backup Using Snapshots</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >13.4.1. <A HREF="snapshots_backup.html#snapbackcreate" >Create the snapshot volume</A ></DT ><DT >13.4.2. <A HREF="snapshots_backup.html#AEN1243" >Mount the snapshot volume</A ></DT ><DT >13.4.3. <A HREF="snapshots_backup.html#AEN1253" >Do the backup</A ></DT ><DT >13.4.4. <A HREF="snapshots_backup.html#AEN1259" >Remove the snapshot</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >13.5. <A HREF="removeadisk.html" >Removing an Old Disk</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >13.5.1. <A HREF="removeadisk.html#AEN1272" >Distributing Old Extents to Existing Disks in Volume Group</A ></DT ><DT >13.5.2. <A HREF="removeadisk.html#AEN1291" >Distributing Old Extents to a New Replacement Disk</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >13.6. <A HREF="recipemovevgtonewsys.html" >Moving a volume group to another system</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >13.6.1. <A HREF="recipemovevgtonewsys.html#AEN1325" >Unmount the file system</A ></DT ><DT >13.6.2. <A HREF="recipemovevgtonewsys.html#AEN1330" >Mark the volume group inactive</A ></DT ><DT >13.6.3. <A HREF="recipemovevgtonewsys.html#AEN1336" >Export the volume group</A ></DT ><DT >13.6.4. <A HREF="recipemovevgtonewsys.html#AEN1342" >Import the volume group</A ></DT ><DT >13.6.5. <A HREF="recipemovevgtonewsys.html#AEN1356" >Activate the volume group</A ></DT ><DT >13.6.6. <A HREF="recipemovevgtonewsys.html#AEN1361" >Mount the file system</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >13.7. <A HREF="recipesplitvg.html" >Splitting a volume group</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >13.7.1. <A HREF="recipesplitvg.html#AEN1369" >Determine free space</A ></DT ><DT >13.7.2. <A HREF="recipesplitvg.html#AEN1375" >Move data off the disks to be used</A ></DT ><DT >13.7.3. <A HREF="recipesplitvg.html#AEN1388" >Create the new volume group</A ></DT ><DT >13.7.4. <A HREF="recipesplitvg.html#AEN1394" >Remove remaining volume</A ></DT ><DT >13.7.5. <A HREF="recipesplitvg.html#AEN1402" >Create new logical volume</A ></DT ><DT >13.7.6. <A HREF="recipesplitvg.html#AEN1408" >Make a file system on the volume</A ></DT ><DT >13.7.7. <A HREF="recipesplitvg.html#AEN1413" >Mount the new volume</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >13.8. <A HREF="upgraderoottolvm.html" >Converting a root filesystem to LVM 1</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >13.8.1. <A HREF="upgraderoottolvm.html#AEN1436" >Boot single user</A ></DT ><DT >13.8.2. <A HREF="upgraderoottolvm.html#AEN1440" >Run Parted</A ></DT ><DT >13.8.3. <A HREF="upgraderoottolvm.html#AEN1455" >Reboot</A ></DT ><DT >13.8.4. <A HREF="upgraderoottolvm.html#AEN1458" >Verify kernel config options</A ></DT ><DT >13.8.5. <A HREF="upgraderoottolvm.html#AEN1461" >Adjust partition type</A ></DT ><DT >13.8.6. <A HREF="upgraderoottolvm.html#AEN1471" >Set up LVM 1 for the new scheme</A ></DT ><DT >13.8.7. <A HREF="upgraderoottolvm.html#AEN1490" >Create the Filesystem</A ></DT ><DT >13.8.8. <A HREF="upgraderoottolvm.html#AEN1495" >Update /etc/fstab</A ></DT ><DT >13.8.9. <A HREF="upgraderoottolvm.html#AEN1500" >Create an LVM 1 initial RAM disk</A ></DT ><DT >13.8.10. <A HREF="upgraderoottolvm.html#AEN1505" >Update /etc/lilo.conf</A ></DT ><DT >13.8.11. <A HREF="upgraderoottolvm.html#AEN1513" >Run LILO to write the new boot sector</A ></DT ><DT >13.8.12. <A HREF="upgraderoottolvm.html#AEN1517" >Reboot to lvm</A ></DT ><DT >13.8.13. <A HREF="upgraderoottolvm.html#AEN1523" >Add remainder of disk</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >13.9. <A HREF="recovermetadata.html" >Recover physical volume metadata</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ><P > This section details several different <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"recipes"</SPAN > for setting up lvm. 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