From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:02:03 +0200 From: "Heinz J. Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] I/O error: dev 08:11, sector 0 Message-ID: <20010723100203.C10807@sistina.com> References: <20010720211356.A932@digit-safe.dyndns.org> <20010721134419.B12590@digit-safe.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010721134419.B12590@digit-safe.dyndns.org>; from allanwind@mediaone.net on Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:44:19PM -0400 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:44:19PM -0400, Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 2001-07-20 21:13:56, Allan M. Wind wrote: > > > > When does lvm create /dev/sdb1 (I only used /dev/sdb)? > > > > Still curios about this one as I did not create it and cfdisk does not > > seem to recognize the partition (just reports free space). How is > > this partition locatated in relation to the disc device? I get the > > above error if dd if=sdb1 but I would think the sector would be > > reachable via the the disc device also... perhaps there is something > > wrong with the device partition? > > > > Does lvm use the first sector? If not, could it just be bad data that > > is somehow read and therefor complained about and could be wiped? > > Should I create a partition and feed that to pvcreate instead of > > giving it the raw disk? > > Used `pvcreate /dev/sdb1` (instead of /dev/sdb) and everything works > as expected. I suspect there is a bug with the combination of linux > 2.4.6 (devfsd) and lvm 0.9.1beta7 causing a non-functional partition > to be created when you use the raw disk partition. Are you able to reporduce this? > > > /Allan > -- > Allan M. Wind email: allanwind@mediaone.net > P.O. Box 2022 finger: awind@digit-safe.dyndns.org (GPG/PGP) > Woburn, MA 01888-0022 > USA -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-