lvm: logical volume and volume group creation

available hard disks: /dev/cciss/c1d3 /dev/cciss/c1d4 /dev/cciss/c1d5 /dev/cciss/c1d6

create volume group:

# vgcreate VolGroup01 /dev/cciss/c1d1 /dev/cciss/c1d2 /dev/cciss/c1d3 /dev/cciss/c1d4 /dev/cciss/c1d5 /dev/cciss/c1d6

total size of VolGroup01 is 409.99GB

create logical volume from group:

# lvcreate -L 409.99G VolGroup01 -n LogVol00 <-- name of the logical volume

create partition on the Logical Volume:

# fdisk /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00

make filesystem:

# mkfs.ext3 /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00