From: Daniel Gardner <daniel@danielgardner.org>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] vgcreate -- no valid physical volumes in command line
Date: Sun Sep 8 09:55:15 2002 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209081550.37511.daniel@danielgardner.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002901c25746$b78f1510$3200a8c0@warl0k>
On Sunday 08 September 2002 3:47 pm, Glenn Shannon wrote:
> Are you running DevFS by chance?
Yes - is that bad? :S
Daniel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com [mailto:linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com]
> On Behalf Of Daniel Gardner
> Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 7:34 AM
> To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
> Subject: [linux-lvm] vgcreate -- no valid physical volumes in command
> line
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to this whole LVM lark, and something isn't working right for
> me...
>
> I've got a partition, /dev/hda2, which I'm trying to put LVM stuff on.
>
> cfdisk says:
>
> First Last
> # Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID)
> -- ------- -------- --------- ------ --------- ----------------------
> 2 Primary 6249285 12466439 0 6217155 Linux LVM (8E)
>
> Then I do:
>
> root@gentoo daniel # pvcreate /dev/hda2
> pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/hda2" successfully created
>
> root@gentoo daniel # pvdisplay /dev/hda2
> pvdisplay -- "/dev/hda2" is a new physical volume of 2.96 GB
>
> root@gentoo daniel # pvscan
> pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2" is in no
> VG
> [2.96 GB]
> pvscan -- total: 1 [2.96 GB] / in use: 0 [0] / in no VG: 1 [2.96 GB]
>
> All looking good... now here's the weird one:
>
> root@gentoo daniel # vgcreate main /dev/hda2
> vgcreate -- no valid physical volumes in command line
>
> This is where I'm getting my baby steps from
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lvm2.html?dwzone=l
> inux
>
> I was using stock kernel 2.4.18 and tools 1.0.5 to start with, but just
> tried
> 1.1-rc2 with the same results on both.
>
> I don't really know where to go further with this, don't know if it's
> just me
> being stupid or what. Anyone got any ideas? I'll provide any info that I
> need
> to - just let me know what's needed!
>
> Thanks awfully,
> Daniel
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-08 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-08 9:34 [linux-lvm] vgcreate -- no valid physical volumes in command line Daniel Gardner
2002-09-08 9:48 ` Glenn Shannon
2002-09-08 9:55 ` Daniel Gardner [this message]
2002-09-08 10:02 ` Glenn Shannon
2002-09-08 10:21 ` Daniel Gardner
2002-09-08 9:54 ` NagyZ
2002-09-08 10:10 ` Daniel Gardner
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-29 13:45 fnt
2002-12-29 14:57 ` Luca Berra
2002-12-29 15:13 ` fnt
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