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From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] vgcreate problem
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Date: Tue Sep 23 01:41:02 2003
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 01:22:09AM -0400, Qv6 wrote:
>vgcreate gentis /dev/hda6 /dev/hdb
>
>vgcreate -- no valid physical volumes in command line
>
>Any help to resolve this error will be appreciated.
you are using lvm 1 with a kernel compiled with devfs
you have to use the long devfs names, check /proc/partitions

regards,
L.

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