From: Ming Zhang <mingz@ele.uri.edu>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] problem when creating a volumegroup on an external drive
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 21:49:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1147484968.7783.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44650B76.6070604@neuroweave.nl>
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 00:25 +0200, Joep Blom wrote:
> 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
when u buy the disk, vendor count it as 250GB or 250 * 1000 * 1000 *
1000 bytes.
when LVM count it, it is 250 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 / 1024 / 1024/ 1024 =
232.83GB.
check online, many discussion about this 1024 and 1000 issue.
> 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
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-13 1:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-12 11:28 [linux-lvm] problem when creating a volumegroup on an external drive Joep Blom
2006-05-12 12:16 ` Patrick Caulfield
2006-05-12 14:50 ` Joep Blom
2006-05-12 14:57 ` Klaus Strebel
2006-05-12 22:25 ` Joep Blom
2006-05-13 1:49 ` Ming Zhang [this message]
2006-05-13 8:19 ` Joep Blom
2006-05-13 10:20 ` Markus Laire
2006-05-14 21:42 ` Joep Blom
2006-05-15 8:42 ` Markus Laire
2006-05-15 9:14 ` Joep Blom
2006-05-13 15:42 ` Ming Zhang
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