From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4HIgs3P020663 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 14:42:54 -0400 Received: from percy.comedia.it (percy.comedia.it [212.97.59.71]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k4HIgXCI024120 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 14:42:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 20:42:32 +0200 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Problem with creation of dev entries on SL (RHEL) 4 Message-ID: <20060517184232.GC16774@percy.comedia.it> References: <446B0DE9.6010004@cs.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <446B0DE9.6010004@cs.tcd.ie> Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Stephen.Childs@cs.tcd.ie, LVM general discussion and development On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:50:01PM +0100, Stephen Childs wrote: >When I create a new LVM volume on Scientific Linux 4 (RHEL4-compatible), a >new entry isn't created in /dev, meaning that I can't access the volume >although it exists. > >Creation succeeds: > >[root@tg23 mapper]# /usr/sbin//lvcreate -s '-L1024M' -n >'/dev/xenvg/gridmon_gridmon023__1147860249' /dev/xenvg/gridmon > Logical volume "gridmon_gridmon023__1147860249" created > >Mount fails: .... >Any ideas? > Weird, but your command line is also weird could you try without prefixing the vg name to -the -n parameter? lvcreate -s -L1024M -n gridmon_gridmon023__1147860249 /dev/xenvg/gridmon else look into the log section of /etc/lvm.conf and provide some logs. L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \