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 (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iB6LP4r02992 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:25:04 -0500 Received: from delirium.voip.primustel.com ([209.227.165.143]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iB6LOvia009281 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:24:58 -0500 Received: from male.ia.us.primus (male.cv.telegroup.com [10.40.40.244]) by delirium.voip.primustel.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D4EEEE9F for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 21:24:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from benway.cv.telegroup.com (benway.cv.telegroup.com [10.40.41.175]) by male.ia.us.primus (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iB6LM0xl001090 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 15:22:00 -0600 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Huge memory allocation... From: Aran Cox In-Reply-To: <1102350496.3579.49.camel@benway> References: <1102350496.3579.49.camel@benway> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:21:59 -0600 Message-Id: <1102368120.3579.67.camel@benway> Mime-Version: 1.0 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" To: LVM general discussion and development On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 10:28 -0600, Aran Cox wrote: > Could there be metadata lurking on > that disk that confuses the utilities? I basically did a: pvremove /dev/hdb And now the error messages are gone. It looks like I had lvm1 metadata (corrupt or not) on the /dev/hdb device. I guess I posted a little too soon... -- Aran Cox