From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] pvcreate problem on new IDE disk Message-ID: <20030423183832.A5757@sistina.com> References: <20030419192108.A18402@ultraviolet.org> <20030421000714.A30038@uk.sistina.com> <20030420212233.B18402@ultraviolet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030420212233.B18402@ultraviolet.org>; from treed@ultraviolet.org on Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 09:22:33PM -0700 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 Apr 23 11:44:02 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 09:22:33PM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:07:15AM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon spake thusly: > > Two things to check first: > > Make sure that /dev/hdd2 exists and that other programs can > > write/read it; > > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 66 Mar 14 2002 /dev/hdd2 > > > Run 'vgscan' and then try the pvcreate again. > > [vgscan needs running after new devices are added] > > home:/# vgscan > Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... > Found volume group "system" using metadata type lvm1 > home:/# pvcreate /dev/hdd2 > Failed to read existing physical volume '/dev/hdd2' > Physical volume "/dev/hdd2" successfully created > > It still says "failed to read" etc. but then says successfully created. > Hmm... > > home:/# vgextend system /dev/hdd2 > Volume group "system" successfully extended > > Ok, looks like it is working ok. Now another problem... > > home:/# pvmove > Command not implemented yet. > > Ugh...looks like LVM1 had it but LVM2 does not yet. Has this changed since > my version? You'll have it shortly with LVM 2.0 :) > > LVM version: 1.95.10 (2002-05-31) > > Even if pvmove is still nonexistant I guess I can put the new disk in another > VG, create LV's over there, and manually copy the data over. Yes. > > Thanks for the help! > > -- > Tracy Reed http://www.ultraviolet.org Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-