Mutiple VG on one physical volumn disk

[B. Jen]

Can I create mutiple volumn groups on one physical volumn disk?

Thank you.

[Xavier Gutierrez_2]

Hi, Jen.

Nop, it is forbidden.

One Physical volume can only belong to one volume group.

Cheers,

Javier.

[Stuart Abramson]

No.

You can create one VG on one PV.

A single PV can only be part of one VG.

A single VG can "contain" many PVs.

[Patrick Wallek]

Absolutely NOT! A single physical volume, whether its an actual disk or a LUN from an array, can only a member of a single volume group.

[Geoff Wild]

No - not allowed - 1 vg per LUN - only way to to what you want is in a storage array - where the server only sees a "slice" of a disk.

Rgds...Geoff

[A. Clay Stephenson]

You can create N VG's on one disk but only the last pvcreate/vgcreate counts. LVM does not support the concept of disk slices so the entire physical disk becomes a member of at most one VG.

[Steven E. Protter]

No. A single disk can not be in two volume groups.

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