LVM Support for the Linux 2.4 Kernel - Compiling and Configuring LVM

Now that the device mapper is all happy (see this article), let's install the LVM software. Grab the source from here. Extract, configure, compile, and install:

sv-1# tar -xzf LVM2.2.01.15.tgz
sv-1# cd LVM2.2.01.15
sv-1# ./configure --prefix=/usr
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gawk... gawk

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config.status: creating test/format1/Makefile
config.status: creating test/regex/Makefile
config.status: creating test/filters/Makefile
sv-1#
sv-1# make
make -C doc
make -C include
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/LVM2.2.01.15/include'
find . -maxdepth 1 -type l -exec rm -f \{\} \;
for i in `cat .symlinks`; do ln -s $i ; done
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/LVM2.2.01.15/doc'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
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gcc -o lvm dumpconfig.o formats.o lvchange.o lvconvert.o lvcreate.o lvdisplay.o
lvextend.o lvmchange.o lvmcmdline.o lvmdiskscan.o lvreduce.o lvremove.o
lvrename.o lvresize.o lvscan.o polldaemon.o pvchange.o pvcreate.o pvdisplay.o
pvmove.o pvremove.o pvscan.o reporter.o segtypes.o toollib.o vgcfgbackup.o
vgcfgrestore.o vgchange.o vgck.o vgcreate.o vgconvert.o vgdisplay.o vgexport.o
vgextend.o vgimport.o vgmerge.o vgmknodes.o vgreduce.o vgremove.o vgrename.o
vgscan.o vgsplit.o lvm.o -Wl,--export-dynamic -L../lib -L/usr/lib -llvm
-ldevmapper -ldl -rdynamic
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/LVM2.2.01.15/tools'
sv-1#
sv-1# make install
make -C doc
make -C include
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/LVM2.2.01.15/include'
make -C daemons install
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/LVM2.2.01.15/daemons'
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make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/LVM2.2.01.15/daemons'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/LVM2.2.01.15/man'
sv-1#

Set up the partitions as type Linux LVM using fdisk:

Hex code (type L to list codes): 8e
Changed system type of partition 4 to 8e (Linux LVM)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 62 497983+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 63 124 498015 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 125 1341 9775552+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 1342 30401 233424450 8e Linux LVM
Command (m for help):w
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Run lvmdiskscan to see what disks are available:

sv-1# lvmdiskscan
/dev/hda1 [ 486.31 MB]
/dev/hda2 [ 486.34 MB]
/dev/hda3 [ 9.32 GB]
/dev/hda4 [ 222.61 GB]
0 disks
4 partitions
0 LVM physical volume whole disks
0 LVM physical volumes

Create a physical volume and volume group:

sv-1# pvcreate /dev/hda4
Physical volume "/dev/hda4" successfully created
sv-1# vgcreate volgroup /dev/hda4
Volume group "volgroup" successfully created
sv-1# vgdisplay
--- Volume group ---
VG Name volgroup
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 1
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 0
Open LV 0
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 222.61 GB
PE Size 4.00 MB
Total PE 56988
Alloc PE / Size 0 / 0
Free PE / Size 56988 / 222.61 GB
VG UUID qauL7L-rO53-5EBU-6jgj-49CN-xJwL-sun5C0


Create a logical volume:

sv-1# lvcreate -L200G -nlogicalvol volgroup
Rounding up size to full physical extent 200 GB
Logical volume "logicalvol" created

This is how the block device looks:

sv-1# ls -l /dev/volgroup/logicalvol
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jun 24 17:56
/dev/volgroup/logicalvol -> /dev/mapper/volgroup-logicalvol
sv-1#