From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Dilger Message-Id: <200008240002.e7O02bo03155@webber.adilger.net> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM and sw RAID1 In-Reply-To: <20000823194847.D8398@gospelcom.net> "from Peter Green at Aug 23, 2000 07:48:47 pm" Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:02:37 -0600 (MDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Peter Green Cc: Andreas Dilger , linux-lvm@msede.com Peter writes: > [root@dmna /root]# pvcreate /dev/md0 > pvcreate -- invalid partition type 0x83 for "/dev/md0" (must be 0x8e) > > [root@dmna /root]# pvcreate -f /dev/md0 > pvcreate -- invalid partition type 0x83 for "/dev/md0" (must be 0x8e) > > [root@dmna /root]# pvcreate -ff /dev/md0 > pvcreate -- invalid partition type 0x83 for "/dev/md0" (must be 0x8e) Have you tried running "pvcreate -v -d /dev/md0"? It may be that you get some more clues with this. Maybe even strace of the above. It looks like pvcreate is not getting the correct "dev" or "rdev" from the inode... Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert