#LVM

Sometimes you might need to mount a DOMU’s disk in DOM0, so that you can edit files, or even recover them in the event that your DOMU is broken and fails to boot.

This is a quick and dirty guide to setting up an LVM based filesystem.

First create some disk partitions. In this example I’ve got two identical unformatted partitions on a couple of hard drives. These appear in /dev as sda4 and sdb4. Please note your partition number will most likely be different.
Also note that it’s easy to break your system with some of these commands. You have been warned, so don’t blame me if you wipe your system out!

First make the partitions available to LVM:
pvcreate /dev/sda4
Physical volume “/dev/sda4″ successfully created