Hard Disk Issue - fdisk and df -h
 

Hi,

I have a dedicated server which has raid 1 configured to use 2x 1 Tb hard drive.

I want to create a volume group. But i m not able to do so.

If i do df -h i get this


[root@sd-55453 ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 99G 2.7G 91G 3% /
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 194M 61M 123M 34% /boot
[root@sd-55453 ~]#


And if i do fdisk -l

[root@sd-55453 ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 999.7 GB, 999653638144 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121534 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0008dd48

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 26 204800 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 26 13080 104857600 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 13080 14112 8290304 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 14112 121533 862860094+ 8e Linux LVM
[root@sd-55453 ~]#


Now this dev/sda4 does not appear on df -h and i m new to this so how can i bring sda4 on def -h command. And after that only i can create LVG
Please suggest

df -h only shows mounted partitions.

fdisk shows all partitions on a disk.

You need to tell LVM which partitions are managed by LVM.

So enterthen enter 'help' to list available LVM commands, 'quit' to return to command entry.

You start with pvcreate (enter pvcreate -h for more info).