I have create a volume group X to which I have added 2 physical drives HDD1 and HDD2. What I want to do is to share this VG such that I can use is it as a single drive.
Can someone please explain how I can about this as, when I add the drives as logical volumes I can see the two "files" for the drives which can easily be deleted by mistake.
I know I can "protect" the "files" but is there a way to share a VG without the LV or can I hide the LV so they aren't shown? Perhaps calling them .HDD1 and .HDD2?
Right now I have no data on the VG so I will try anything suggested.
Thanks.
What I was doing wrong was to format each individual logical volume (LV) which had previously been assigned to the virtual group (VG) which then prevented the entire VG being shared as a single "drive".
The solution, for me anyway, was to create the VG and assign the physical drives and then create a single LV which "spanned" the physical drives as a single file system rather than 2 drives with their own file system. It's a bit like a RAID 0 (or striped disks).