From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <3AF337B2.162238F8@gecpalau.com> Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 08:13:54 +0900 From: Glenn Shannon MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Can't pvcreate second partition... References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com "Diehl, Jeffrey" wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm new to LVM, but think I understad it, at least... > > Anyway, I'm trying to setup the first VG but can't seem to build my PV's. > The transcript of what I did is at the bottom of this message. > > As you can see, I was able to do pvcreate on /dev/sdc2, but not on > /dev/sdc3. These partitions are on a hardware raid5. > > Am I missing something? > > Thanx, > Mike Diehl, > Network Monitoring Tool Devl. > 284-3137 > jdiehl@sandia.gov > > Script started on Fri May 4 07:33:56 2001 > [root@filmore /mnt]# fdisk /dev/sdc > > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 30945. > There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, > and could in certain setups cause problems with: > 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO) > 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs > (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) > > Command (m for help): p > > Disk /dev/sdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 30945 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdc1 1 15472 124278808+ 8e Unknown > /dev/sdc2 15473 15476 32130 8e Unknown > /dev/sdc3 15477 15480 32130 8e Unknown > /dev/sdc4 15481 15484 32130 8e Unknown > > Command (m for help): w > The partition table has been altered! > > Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. > Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy. > Reboot your system to ensure the partition table is updated. > > WARNING: If you have created or modified any DOS 6.x > partitions, please see the fdisk manual page for additional > information. > Syncing disks. > > [root@filmore /mnt]# pvcreate /dev/sdc2 > pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/sdc2" successfully created > > [root@filmore /mnt]# pvcreate /dev/sdc3 > pvcreate -- can't open physical volume "/dev/sdc3" to get its size > > pvcreate [-d|--debug] [-f[f]|--force [--force]] [-h|--help] [-y|--yes] > [-v|--verbose] [-V|--version] PhysicalVolume [PhysicalVolume...] > > Script done on Fri May 4 07:34:33 2001 > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm Can you try rebooting and trying the pvcreate again? I suspect that it was because the partition table was unable to be updated. Glenn