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Date: Tue Sep 23 01:43:02 2003
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Qv6 wrote:

>	
>Hi,
>
>I just created 2 PVs with the following commands:
>
>pvcreate /dev/hda6
>
>pvcreate /dev/hdb
>
>When I ran vgcreate, I got this error:
>
>vgcreate gentis /dev/hda6 /dev/hdb
>
>vgcreate -- no valid physical volumes in command line
>
>Any help to resolve this error will be appreciated.
>
>Qv6
>  
>
You might get this if /dev/hda6 and /dev/hdb are symlinks (for example, 
if you are using devfs).
Do an ls -l on those and see if they actually point to something like 
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc.

If they are symlinks, calling vgcreate with the full, real path to those 
volumes would work. If that's not it, I'm stumped.

-Tupshin