From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Robert L. Harris" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] problem with vgcreate Message-ID: <20021122201853.GG8618@rdlg.net> References: <20021122200742.GE8618@rdlg.net> <690630000.1037996221@[192.168.200.4]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <690630000.1037996221@[192.168.200.4]> 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: Fri Nov 22 14:19:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Steven Lembark Cc: linux-lvm@sistina.com, robert@rdlg.net Tried them both in both combinations and neither one worked. I got a new error message after the last reboot about the partition type. It was "linux" not 8e (Unknown according to fdisk). vgcreate is working per below now. Probably this bizaar hardware I'm stuck with. Thus spake Steven Lembark (lembark@wrkhors.com): > Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:17:01 -0600 > From: Steven Lembark > To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > cc: robert@rdlg.net > Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] problem with vgcreate > X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.0a5 (Linux/x86) > > > > -- "Robert L. Harris" > > > > > > >I'm trying to create a LVM for a system. I partitioned my drives, > >rebooted and do my pvcreates but then it blows up on vgcreate. The > >drives are both 18Gig, I've duplicated the partitions so they're > >identicle size even though they're going to be concats, not stripes. > > > >Here's a screen dump just made a bit readable. > > > >root@performance:/root# pvcreate /dev/sda2 > >pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/sda2" successfully created > > > >root@performance:/root# pvcreate /dev/sdb2 > >pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/sda2" successfully created > > > >root@performance:/root# pvscan -v > >pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > >pvscan -- walking through all physical volumes found > >pvscan -- no valid physical volumes found > > > >performanc:/root# vgcreate -v lvm-vg1 > >/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 > >/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 vgcreate -- checking volume group > > Any reason you use the devfs paths for the vgcreate and > devfsd for the pvcreate's? > > > -- > Steven Lembark 2930 W. Palmer > Workhorse Computing Chicago, IL 60647 > +1 800 762 1582 :wq! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert L. Harris | PGP Key ID: FC96D405 DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'