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17.3 Sample LVM session
The sample process flow that follows was modeled from Richard Higson’s
write-up on LVM at:
http://pax.gt.owl.de/~higson/LVM/
To create a logical volume, you must start with formatting the DASD of all the real
volumes that will make it up.
In our case, we first formatted the four DASD that will be used to create a
physical volume:
# dasdfmt -y -b 4096 -n 204 &
# dasdfmt -y -b 4096 -n 205 &
# dasdfmt -y -b 4096 -n 206 &
# dasdfmt -y -b 4096 -n 207 &
17.3.1 Using the pvcreate and vgscan commands
You will also need to create a physical volume entry for each of these, so that
LVM will know about ...