topic Re: LVM in Operating System - HP-UX

LVM

Indrajit Bhagat — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:36:42 GMT

I want to know, that what is the purpose of mknod command used in volume group creation.

why we create a /dev/vg01 directory.

Re: LVM

Sandman! — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:39:05 GMT

See the manpage of lvm(7) for details:

# man 7 lvm

Re: LVM

Pete Randall — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:21:57 GMT

The mknod command is used to create a device file to access the VG with. Do a man on mknod as well as the man on lvm.

Pete

Re: LVM

Avinash Agarkar — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:48:19 GMT

Hi,

mknode create the device file to access the volume group it will also havng the maj and minor no which are different for all the volume groups.

/dev/vg01 is only a default naming conversion you can also create you own directory with deifferent vgname.

Thanks,
Avinash

Re: LVM

Anshumali — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:00:56 GMT

mknod is used to create a device file. More can be judged as
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/pageList.do?userId=CA1404126&listType=unassigned&forumId=1

isnt it?