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Question
How do I create a large file system (8 TB)?
Answer
There are four steps to this process: create a physical volume, create a volume group, create a logical volume and put the file system on the logical volume. In practice, you could run the following commands:
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pvcreate /dev/sde
vgcreate MyLargeGroup /dev/sde
lvcreate -L 8T -n largevol MyLargeGroup
mkfs.ext3 /dev/MyLargeGroup/largevol
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where /dev/sde is the SAN, MyLargeGroup is the volume group and largevol is the logical volume. This example would create an 8 TB ext3 file system on /dev/sde.
For detailed information about creating a large file system, refer to the document below.
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