From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200308152304.h7FN4eo12611@mail.osdl.org> From: markw@osdl.org Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvcreate with a 52 drive volume In-Reply-To: <20030815213131.G12107@uk.sistina.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Fri Aug 15 18:05:02 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Ok, I've put the log file: http://developer.osdl.org/markw/lvm2.log Compressed: http://developer.osdl.org/markw/lvm2.log.gz Thanks, Mark On 15 Aug, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 01:11:51PM -0700, markw@osdl.org wrote: >> # lvcreate -i52 -I4 -l450996 -n mydata data_volume >> device-mapper ioctl cmd 9 failed: Invalid argument >> Couldn't load device 'data_volume-mydata'. >> Failed to activate new LV. > > Mark, please would you enable the debug messages > as described in the docs, > viz. the following settings in lvm.conf: > > log { > file="/tmp/lvm2.log" > level=7 > activation=1 > } > > then look at /tmp/lvm2.log after running the > problematic command? > >> device-mapper: couldn't split parameters >> device-mapper: error adding target to table > > The log file will show you the actual parameters > that were passed to device-mapper leading to > the error messages. > > Please put the log file(s) somewhere on the web and > post URL(s) to the list - or mail the log file(s) > to me privately as a *compressed* attachment. > > Alasdair