Using the Logical Volume Manager

Contents

About this book . . . . . . . . . . . v

Who should read this book . . . . . . . . . v

Conventions and terminology used in this book . . v

Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Related information . . . . . . . . . . . vii

Using the Logical Volume Manager . . . 1

Starting LVM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Physical View . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Logical View . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Managing Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Creating a Volume . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Setting a Volume Startable. . . . . . . . . 3

Changing a Drive Letter Assigned to a Volume . . 3

Setting or Changing a Volume Name . . . . . 4

Deleting a Volume . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Hiding a Volume from OS/2 . . . . . . . . 4

Unhiding a Volume from OS/2 . . . . . . . 5

Managing Partitions. . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Creating a Partition . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Deleting a Partition . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Changing the Disk Name . . . . . . . . . 6

Changing the Partition Name. . . . . . . . 6

Using the Boot Manager . . . . . . . . . . 6

Installing Boot Manager . . . . . . . . . 6

Removing Boot Manager . . . . . . . . . 7

Adding a Volume to the Boot Manager Menu . . 7

Removing a Volume from the Boot Manager Menu 7

Setting or Changing Boot Manager Startup Values 7

Committing Changes . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Appendix. Notices . . . . . . . . . . 9

Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

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