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 k4CMOO40025415 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 18:24:24 -0400 Received: from amsfep15-int.chello.nl (amsfep17-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.15]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4CMOMPu031239 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 18:24:22 -0400 Received: from laguna.nwhq.nl ([213.46.145.128]) by amsfep15-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.6.01.04.04 201-2131-118-104-20050224) with ESMTP id <20060512222411.HTUJ1815.amsfep15-int.chello.nl@laguna.nwhq.nl> for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 00:24:11 +0200 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (velsatis.nwhq.nl [192.168.100.33]) by laguna.nwhq.nl (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4CMOA6e003158 for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 00:24:10 +0200 Message-ID: <44650B76.6070604@neuroweave.nl> Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 00:25:58 +0200 From: Joep Blom 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> <4464A274.3090808@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <4464A274.3090808@gmx.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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" To: LVM general discussion and development Klaus Strebel wrote: >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 > > > Klaus & Pattrick, I'm sorry I asked the wrong question (stupid me!). I interpreted the output of vgcreate wrongly. Yes, Klaus, the VolGroup00 was automatically created by FC when I did an upgrade. The correct question is that VG01 (the name I gave it) occupies 232.88 Gb although I had asked for 250 Gb. Where are the 17.2 GB and can I add them to VG01. When I look with fdisk it says that no information is available for /dev/sda1 and "invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)". I assume that all problems have arisen due to the fact that I did a pvcreate on a disk which has a W95 FAT32 partition ( of 250 Gb). I assume the best way is to delete the partition completely and create a new partition (with parted or fdisk?) or are there better methods? Do I have to remove VG01 first? Please, be lenient to me for these basic questions. Joep