Operation Manual

Figure 3.4
Logical Volume Management
Click Add and go through the wizard-like pop-up that opens:
1.
Enter the name of the LV. For a partition that should be mounted to /home, a self-
explanatory name like HOME could be used.
2. Select the size and the number of stripes of the LV. If you have only one PV, selecting
more than one stripe is not useful.
3. Choose the lesystem to use on the LV as well as the mount point.
By using stripes it is possible to distribute the data stream in the LV among several PVs
(striping). However, striping a volume can only be done over different PVs, each pro-
viding at least the amount of space of the volume. The maximum number of stripes
equals to the number of PVs, where Stripe "1" means "no striping". Striping only makes
sense with PVs on different hard disks, otherwise performance will decrease.
WARNING: Striping
YaST cannot, at this point, verify the correctness of your entries concerning
striping. Any mistake made here is apparent only later when the LVM is imple-
mented on disk.
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