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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] setting VG UUID
Date: Thu Jan  8 16:27:01 2004	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040108212542.GF23918@homer.msp.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040107092415.A28215@cs.mcgill.ca>

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:24:15AM -0500, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> For the record, I'm absolutely crazy, but I fixed this by doing:
> 
> echo "deadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeef"|dd of=/dev/hda6 obs=1 seek=4096 count=32

> So much for universal uniqueness...
The VG UUIDs *are* meant to all be the same on devices that are part of the
same VG.  It's the PV UUIDs that differ.
 
> For the record, I created my LVM1 partitions with Linux Mandrake 9.2.
Could /dev/urandom have been missing when pvcreate was run?
We think that would explain the symptoms.

> Should "vgchange -a n" maybe clean up these symlinks?
It's supposed to do.
 
Alasdair
-- 
agk@redhat.com

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-08 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-07  6:00 [linux-lvm] setting VG UUID Navindra Umanee
2004-01-07  8:26 ` Navindra Umanee
2004-01-08 16:27   ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2004-01-08 16:35     ` Navindra Umanee
2004-03-12 17:17       ` Dan Merillat
2004-01-22 16:50 ` Luca Berra
2004-01-22 20:53   ` Navindra Umanee
2004-01-23  2:27     ` Luca Berra
2004-01-23  8:37   ` Alasdair G Kergon
2004-01-23 14:33     ` Luca Berra

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