linux suse11中创建raw,如何在SuseLinux上创建raw设备.doc

Three steps to create a logical volume

How can we make raw devices in Suse Linux? Is there an easy way to build chunks based on raw devices with something like a Logical Volume manager?The answer is: yes. In this article we learn the basics of LVM2 (created by Heinz Mauelshagen) and how to use it to create raw devices for an informix instance. We will not go through the whole set of LVM-commands but only those which are necessary for handling raw devices.

First have a look on the version of your LVM.The output of the command "lvm version" shows

libelle:/opt # lvm version

LVM version: 2.02.02 (2006-02-07)

Library version: 1.02.03 (2006-02-08)

Driver version: 4.5.0

so we know that we have LVM2. It is important to know which version you use, because Logical Volumes (LV) are differently represented in LVM1 and LVM2.LVM1 stores information about LVs in /proc/lvm/VGs which has changed to /dev/mapper in LVM2.LVM2 is part of the OS since Suse 9.3. If it is not automatically installed, you can install LVM2 via yast2.

To create a logical volume we have to

inititalize physical volumes (disks or partitions on disks)

define Volume Groups (VGs) as sets of physical volumes

define logical volumes (LVs) as subsets of VGs

The first two steps will be done with yast2, the GUI-based administration tool from Suse, but you can do it also with commands like 'pvcreate' and 'vgcreate'.For example, if you want to make the whole disk /dev/hdb a physical volume, you should enter

pvcreate /dev/hdb

This creates a volume group descriptor at the start of disk.Perhaps we get an error if there was a partition table on the disk. Then we have to delete this table explicitly with "dd":

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hbd bs=1k count=1

blockdev --rereadpt /dev/hdb

Instead of the whole disk we can use a partition /dev/hdb1:

pvcreate /dev/hdb1

Next we create the Volume Group (if you didn't create it with Yast2):

vgcreate system /dev/hdb1

Next we want to see the results:

libelle:/home/f995440