From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 07:57:25 -0400 From: Peter Green Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM and sw RAID1 Message-ID: <20000824075725.B7996@gospelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from Peter.Wuestefeld@resnova.de on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 12:37:43PM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Peter.Wuestefeld@resnova.de Cc: Andreas Dilger , linux-lvm@msede.com, owner-linux-lvm@msede.com Thanks for the response, also sprach Peter.Wuestefeld: > > Hi, > I think you are trying to cure the wrong disease ;-) > > [root@dmna /root]# pvcreate -f /dev/md0 > > pvcreate -- invalid partition type 0x83 for "/dev/md0" (must be > 0x8e) > shows what is wrong: > try to set the partition id to 0x8e with fdisk/sfdisk/cfdisk - that > should solve the problem. There *aren't* any partitions on a /dev/md? device. Look at the strace I sent; it's trying to pvcreate /dev/sda, even though I specify /dev/md0 on the command line. Thanks for your help. /pg -- Peter Green : Gospel Communications Network, SysAdmin : pcg@gospelcom.net --- We come to bury DOS, not to praise it. (Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu, paraphrasing a quote of Shakespeare)