LVM Configuration in Ubuntu 8.10
Set filesystems and mount points for logical volumes
The screenshot below is the window you’ll see when you selected “Finish” from the last step. To start configuring the LVs (we start with the LV named home), select the option as shown. Enter.
Make the selection as shown. Enter.
The “alternate-text” installer of Ubuntu supports all four journaling filesystems – Ext3, Reiserfs, XFS, and JFS. Ext3 is usually the default, but using Ext3 requires that an LV be un-mounted before it can be resized. Reiserfs and XFS makes no such requirement. To save us one more task when it comes time to manage LVs, let’s choose Reiserfs. Enter.
With the file system set, time to set the mount point. Select the option as shown. Enter.
Since we are dealing with the LV named home, set the mount point to /home. Enter.
Survey your work and make sure all is right. Select the option as shown. Enter.
Repeat the last six steps (last six screenshots) for the other logical volumes that you created. For this tutorial, here’s what we would choose for the other LVs (the mount points in parenthesis):
- root ( / )
- usr (/usr)
- var (/var)
- tmp (/tmp)
- swap (swap)
For swap, make sure to choose swap as the filesystem type as shown below
When all the logical volumes have their filesystems and mount points set, your window should look like the one below. Enter.
This is the final window you should see when you are done setting up LVM. Set the cursor to “Yes”, hit “Enter” on the keyboard, and continue with the rest of the installation.
The End!
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Thanks so much for this! Just ran it on a new 10.04 install and it still works!
This guide is INCREDIBLY helpful!
Thank you SO very much for such a detailed set of step-by-step instructions. The screen shots along with the text instructions gave me the “visual” confirmation that I needed along the way, without making any mistakes.
I had NO clue how to do my partitioning, LVs, etc., but your guide definitely helped me to get this completed.
Thank you!
Thank you for the definitive guide to setting up LVM. A well-reviewed book published in 2008 was completely inadequate in its LVM setup guide.
Only when I came across this post was I able to correctly set up the HDD. Next time I experiment I may set up ‘swap’ as non-LVM to see if there is any advantage to that. Thanks again, great work!
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