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<li>Click on '''Logical View''' (i.e. above home, root, swap) and then click '''Create New Logical Volume''' button. What happens? Why do you this happened?<br><br>We will now create another partition ('''/dev/vda3''') using the '''fdisk''' utility, format this newly-created partition so we can create another logical volume called '''archive'''.<br><br> </li>
<li>Quit the '''system-config-lvm''' application.</li>
<li>In the terminal as root, issue the command: <b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">ls /dev/vd*</span></code></b><br><br>'''NOTE:''' If nothing displays, issue the command: '''ls /dev/sd*''' and use that device pathname instead of '''/dev/vda''' in the following notes) <li>Issue the command: <b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">fdisk /dev/vda</span></code></b><br><br>Remember that we are using a Virtual Machine, so the hard disk appears as '''/dev/vda''' instead of /dev/sda.<br><br></li>
<li>At the fdisk prompt issue the command: '''p'''. What does this do?</li>
<li>Now issue the commands '''n''' (new partition), '''p''' (primary partition), '''3''' (i.e. next available partition number). When prompted for initial block, '''press enter to accept the default beginning block size''', and '''type: +2G''' at ending block (create 2GB for partition) and '''press enter'''. </li>
