Depending on the hardware configuration that is to be used, follow either the single drive or the multi-drive instructions provided below:

GParted → to create the /boot & Physical LVM partitions

• IF Linux was already installed on a “to be repurposed” hard drive, stop using the swap partition so the drive can be repartitioned.
  • If Linux was installed using LVM → select the lvm2 pv partition → Partition » Deactivate
  • if Linux installed w/o LVM → select the swap partition → Partition » Swap off
• Device » Create Partition Table (This will cause all data on the HDD to be lost.)
• Create a 2000MiB ext2 Primary Partition (to be used by /boot … suggested label is bootlvm)

• Create an lvm2 pv partition using the remainder of the drive space. (pv01 is a suggested Label for this.)

Terminal Commands → to create the LVM volumes

The below is assuming that at least a 240GB hard drive is used for this. Also, with how LVM works, leaving any remaining space unused – to permit resizing (enlarging) LVM Volumes as needed, creating other “purpose specific” Logical Volumes, etc.– is very desirable.

• create & configure the Logical Volume Group & Logical Volumes using the root command shell

  $ sudo -i

• create the Logical Volume Group

  # blkid     # to confirm LVM2_member is on /dev/sda2
  # vgcreate lts14 /dev/sda2

• create the Logical Volumes

  # lvcreate -L 32G -n root lts14    # 32GiB Volume for the Linux OS
  # lvcreate -L 8G -n swap lts14    # 8GiB Swap
  # lvcreate -L 160G -n home lts14    # 160GiB for the User home directories
  # ls /dev/mapper    # should output the below

  control  lts14-home lts14-root  lts14-swap

• now format the (just created) Logical Volumes

  # mkfs -t ext4 /dev/mapper/lts14-root
  # mkfs -t ext4 /dev/mapper/lts14-home
  # mkswap /dev/mapper/lts14-swap
  # exit
  $ exit

$ sudo fdisk -l    # ensure the 2 drives to use are sda, sdb

GParted → to create the /boot & Physical LVM partitions

• Drive sda (/dev/sda)
  • Device » Create Partition Table (This will cause all data on the HDD to be lost.)
  • Create a 2000MiB ext2 Primary Partition (to be used by /boot … “bootlvm” is the suggested Label)
  • Create an lvm2 pv partition using the remainder of the drive space. (pv01 is a suggested Label for this.)

• Drives sdb (/dev/sdb)
  • Device » Create Partition Table (This will cause all data on the HDD to be lost.)
  • Create a 2000MiB unformatted Primary Partition (empty space, so all lvm pv are the same)
  • Create an lvm2 pv partition using the remainder of the drive space. (pv02 is a suggested Label for this.)

Terminal Commands → to create the LVM volumes

The below is assuming that at least two 160GB hard drives are used for this. Also, with how LVM works, leaving any remaining space unused – to permit resizing (enlarging) LVM Volumes as needed, creating other “purpose specific” Logical Volumes, etc.– is very desirable.

$ sudo -i
# fdisk -l     # confirm to use /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2
# vgcreate lts14 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2
# lvcreate -i2 -I4 -L32G -n root lts14    # 2 drive, 4k stripe, 32GiB
# lvcreate -i2 -I4 -L8G -n swap lts14    # 2 drive, 4k stripe, 8GiB
# lvcreate -i2 -I4 -L240G -n home lts14    # 2 drive, 4k stripe, 240GiB
# ls /dev/mapper    # should output the below

control  lts14-home lts14-root  lts14-swap

# mkfs -t ext4 /dev/mapper/lts14-root
# mkfs -t ext4 /dev/mapper/lts14-home
# mkswap /dev/mapper/lts14-swap
# exit
$ exit