From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm 1.0.1-rc4 and vgcreate error Message-Id: <20020116162037.B19969@sistina.com> References: <3c44c485.4dcb.0@connection.com.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3c44c485.4dcb.0@connection.com.br>; from cbastos@connection.com.br on Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 10:08:37PM -0200 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: Date: Wed Jan 16 09:24:01 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Carlos, you say you pvcreated /dev/sda[12] successfully, but run "vgcreate lvmdisk /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1" which makes vgcreate complain like you reported below unless /dev/sdb1 is a valid PV too. On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 10:08:37PM -0200, carlos xavier wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm trying to get LVM working on Linux but is being very frustrating to me. > > I'm running kernel version 2.4.14 and the disks where I'm tryng to do LVM are > > QUANTUM Model: ATLAS10K2-TY367 (scsi) > I've already tried these versions of LVM: lvm_0.6, lvm_1.0.1 and > lvm_1.0.1-rc4. All of them give some trouble, but the main problem is that I > > can't create the volume group. > I followed the howto and partitioned the disks and changed the type to 8e, I > > was able to run pvcreate on the two disks /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2, but when > I > tried to create the volume group I'm getting the following error > > # vgcreate lvmdisk /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 > vgcreate -- ERROR "pv_read(): PV identifier invalid" reading physical volumes > > > With the version lvm_1.0.1 I was able to create it and mount, but when I > rebooted the computer I couldn't mount it again, the volume wasn't detected > > and the data tha I put on it was lost. > > I did a trace of the command and I can see that it opens the files > /etc/lvmtab, > /etc/lvmtab.d > /dev/lvm > /etc/lvmtab > /proc/partitions and > /proc/devices > in that order, and after that it gives me the error. > > Am I missing something? > Could Somebody tell me how can I get over this trouble? > > Regards. > > Xavier > 
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