Extended/Logical partition with parted
I have already partition/installed server and its partition is like following
# parted -l
Model: ATA TOSHIBA THNSNJ51 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 512GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 324GB 324GB primary
2 324GB 405GB 80.5GB primary lvm
3 405GB 406GB 1074MB primary xfs boot
4 406GB 512GB 106GB extended
5 406GB 512GB 106GB logical lvm
Following is output of lsblk
# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 477G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 302G 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 75G 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 1G 0 part /boot
├─sda4 8:4 0 1K 0 part
└─sda5 8:5 0 99G 0 part
├─cl_m1-root 253:0 0 89G 0 lvm /
└─cl_m1-swap 253:1 0 10G 0 lvm [SWAP]
blkid command is saying this /dev/sda5 as Type LVM2_member, which i couldnt understand
# blkid
/dev/sdb1: UUID="2019-03-18-19-33-14-00" LABEL="my" TYPE="udf" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sda3: UUID="eaf7cef9-4107-4d30-ac51-80e678897888" TYPE="xfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="7x2wp0-KTva-jJ7y-copN-brui-jzJC-6gVqJc" TYPE="LVM2_member"
Now i want to create same partition with parted command but i dont know how to partition last part sda4 and sda5(/ and swap), I tried below
# setup partition table on disk
parted -s /dev/sda mklabel msdos
parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 1049k 324G
parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 324G 405G
parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 405G 406G
parted -s /dev/sda mkpart extended 406G 512G
parted -s set 2 lvm on
parted -s set 3 boot on
parted -s set 4 lvm on
I am new to sys admin stuff, excuse if i missed some obvious point
Solution 1:
Read Logical Volume Manager documentation. The partitions flagged as lvm are physical volumes, containing logical volumes.
Partitioning is not needed for most LVM using systems. Let the installer carve out a /boot partition, then create and extend volume groups with entire disks.