• Three steps to create a logical volume

• From Logical Volume to Raw device

• A Python-Program for creating dbspaces und raw-devices

How can we make raw devices in Suse Linux? Is there an easy way to build chunks based on raw devices with something like a Logical Volume manager?
The answer is: yes. In this article we learn the basics of LVM2 (created by Heinz Mauelshagen) and how to use it to create raw devices for an informix instance. We will not go through the whole set of LVM-commands but only those which are necessary for handling raw devices.