[CentOS] How to add a HD to a LVM

Digimer linux at alteeve.com
Sat May 7 19:59:18 UTC 2011


On 05/07/2011 03:10 PM, Todd Cary wrote:
> I have connected a HD that was a prior system drive (Centos 4.8) 
> and I am not sure of the command line procedures to find out if 
> it is recognized (I believe it is since it present in the GUI), 
> delete all data on it and finally add it to the LVM.
> 
> I would like to use it as a backup data drive.
> 
> Todd

Does pvscan or vgscan show it? If not, what is the device path and does
that fall within the 'filter = []' set in lvm.conf?

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