From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4CExNZY015020 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 10:59:23 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.186]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4CExMTm004476 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 10:59:22 -0400 Message-ID: <4464A274.3090808@gmx.net> Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 16:57:56 +0200 From: Klaus Strebel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] problem when creating a volumegroup on an external drive References: <44647168.3030205@neuroweave.nl> <44647CA0.3010509@redhat.com> <4464A0BE.7070509@neuroweave.nl> In-Reply-To: <4464A0BE.7070509@neuroweave.nl> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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="iso-8859-1" To: LVM general discussion and development Joep Blom schrieb: > Patrick Caulfield wrote: >=20 >> Joep Blom wrote: >> =20 >> >>> Hi, >>> I'm new to the list and new to the use of LVM. I have read the manuals >>> (which mainly are for LVM1) and am using LVM2. >>> I have one question. I just created a new volumegroup on an USB external >>> disk. >>> >>> =20 >> >> >> It's fantastically unlikely that a single 'vgcreate VG0' command would >> create >> two VGs. >> >> What is much more likely is that VolGroup00 already existed and you just >> didn't notice it. That's the default name for a volume group created by a >> Fedora install BTW >> >> patrick >> >> _______________________________________________ >> linux-lvm mailing list >> linux-lvm@redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm >> read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ >> >> =20 >> > Patrick, > Thanks for the quick reply. However, this is external USB disk (250Gb > and I just added it to the system as a backup disk. FC5 was running and > before I did anything the disk was formatted as a FAT32 disk I then did > a pvcreate. When I checked the disk was empty (as was expected). The > vgcreate did the strange thing, which is a problem as I cant remove this > VolGroup00 as there exists one on the other (2) disks and when I asses > VolGroup00 it rightly goes to the original VolGroup00, which I cannot > delete. > I think the only solution is fdisk and see if it will free the whole > disk. But any other ideas? > Joep Hi Joep, well, what Patrick meant is, that your system (forget that USB drive in this moment) already has a VG called VolGroup00 on your internal disk. The modern FC distros use it as default (i think, i'm using SuSE ;-) ). Before messing up more using fdisk, just provide us with the output of a vgdisplay -a ;-) get an impression of the 'disaster' :-). Btw. the volume group your wanted to create has the name VG0, not VolGroup00 ;-) .. Ciao Klaus --=20 Mit freundlichen Gr=EF=BF=BDssen / best regards Klaus Strebel, Dipl.-Inform. (FH), mailto:klaus.strebel@gmx.net /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \