Re: I've done pvcreate to 4 of these drives but...

Hi Gene,
yes that process is "a little" bad documented.
You habe completet most of the needed steps already, now you have to use lvcreate to get
a useable volume using all the space in your volume-group.
hope it helps.
Christoph

Am 08.03.2025 um 14:04 schrieb gene heskett:
> 
> On 3/7/25 23:10, Pieter Bowman wrote:
>> Try using a gpt partition table, in fdisk the command "g", will create an empty gpt partition table.
>>
>> Then you should be able to create a partition for the whole drive.
> 
> Done that for /dev/sde making it /dev/sde1, then pvcreated /dev/sda, /dec/sdb, /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd, the first 4.
> 
> Then:root@amanda:/etc/lvm# vgcreate amandatapes /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
>    Volume group "amandatapes" successfully created
> 
> except I can't find it. How do I "mount" it for use??  its not visible in /dev nor the / filesystem..
> 
> root@amanda:/etc/lvm# vgscan
>    Found volume group "amandatapes" using metadata type lvm2
> 
> S/b something named amandatapes with 14.something TiB capacity
> 
> So it looks legit but its invisible??
> 
> I'd also nominate this as the blindingly brightest example of the most obtuse man pages ever.  So I'm likely screwing 
> this up and destroying a kilobuck worth of drives.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
>