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
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agk@redhat.com
next prev parent 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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