From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <000c01bee05a$f0bd2a40$020201c0@gecko> From: "Martin Gansser" Subject: [linux-lvm] pvcreate -- ERROR -399 getting size of physical volume "/dev/sdc1" Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 00:27:54 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@msede.com Hi, i wont to create a stripped Volume consists of 2 x 4 GB Harddisk (sdc1 and sdd1). installed SW is: DLD Kernel 2.2.10 with LVM Version 0.7 after i have changed the partition id, the problems starts i hope the following outputs can help to solve the problem: gecko:[/root] #lsmod Module Size Used by loop 7244 0 (autoclean) lvm 26924 0 bttv 33976 0 (unused) tuner 1872 1 i2c 3160 2 [bttv tuner] videodev 2264 2 [bttv] emu10k1 57924 0 soundcore 2100 5 [emu10k1] nls_iso8859-1 2024 1 (autoclean) nls_cp437 3548 1 (autoclean) vfat 11100 1 (autoclean) fat 23912 1 (autoclean) [vfat] gecko:[/root] #fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 555 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 33 265041 82 Linux swap /dev/sda2 34 555 4192965 83 Linux native Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 527 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 261 2096451 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/sdb2 262 527 2136645 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 262 527 2136613+ 7 OS/2 HPFS Disk /dev/sdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 555 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 1 555 4458006 fe Unknown Disk /dev/sdd: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 555 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 1 555 4458006 fe Unknown gecko:[/root] #pvcreate -d /dev/sd[cd]1 lvm_get_iop_version -- CALLED lvm_get_iop_version -- AFTER ioctl ret: 0 lvm_get_iop_version -- LEAVING with ret: 0 pv_check_name -- CALLED lvm_check_chars -- CALLED lvm_check_chars -- LEAVING pv_check_name -- CALLED pv_name: "/dev/sdc1" pv_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: 0 pv_get_size -- CALLED with /dev/sdc1 and BFFFF38C pv_check_name -- CALLED lvm_check_chars -- CALLED lvm_check_chars -- LEAVING pv_check_name -- CALLED pv_name: "/dev/sdc1" pv_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: 0 pv_check_part -- CALLED with /dev/sdc1 pv_check_name -- CALLED lvm_check_chars -- CALLED lvm_check_chars -- LEAVING pv_check_name -- CALLED pv_name: "/dev/sdc1" pv_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: 0 pv_check_part -- LEAVING with 1 lvm_dir_cache -- CALLED lvm_dir_cache -- calling scandir() with /dev/ide/hd lvm_dir_cache -- AFTER calling scandir() with /dev/ide/hd lvm_dir_cache -- calling scandir() with /dev/loop lvm_dir_cache -- AFTER calling scandir() with /dev/loop lvm_dir_cache -- calling scandir() with /dev/md lvm_dir_cache -- AFTER calling scandir() with /dev/md lvm_dir_cache -- calling scandir() with /dev/rd lvm_dir_cache -- AFTER calling scandir() with /dev/rd lvm_dir_cache -- calling scandir() with /dev/sd lvm_dir_cache -- AFTER calling scandir() with /dev/sd lvm_dir_cache -- calling scandir() with /dev lvm_dir_cache -- AFTER calling scandir() with /dev lvm_dir_cache -- LEAVING with cache_size: 315 pv_get_size -- LEAVING with ret: -399 pvcreate -- ERROR -399 getting size of physical volume "/dev/sdc1" Thanks Martin Gansser m.gansser@ostalb.netsurf.de ----------------------------------------------------