From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j4BGZQO20034 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 12:35:26 -0400 Received: from snefru.openlib.org (netec.wustl.edu [128.252.177.195]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j4BGZLWm005009 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 12:35:21 -0400 Received: from krichel by snefru.openlib.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DVuFZ-0003kM-HL for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Wed, 11 May 2005 11:39:57 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 11:39:57 -0500 From: Thomas Krichel Message-ID: <20050511163957.GA14252@openlib.org> References: <20050510173249.GJ2445@openlib.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050510173249.GJ2445@openlib.org> Subject: [linux-lvm] Re: ide / debian Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux LVM Thomas Krichel writes > I want to combine hdb hdc and hdd to one logical volume. > Each is 80G. All had a single partition. I have a 2.6.8 kernel. > I run the latest Debian testing version of lvm2. I played on and found: * OS sees all three disks * I can pvcreate all disks * pvscan does not find hdc In command language, starting from scratch fafner:~# pvscan No matching physical volumes found fafner:~# pvdisplay fafner:~# fdisk -l /dev/hdb Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/hdb doesn't contain a valid partition table fafner:~# fdisk -l /dev/hdc Disk /dev/hdc: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/hdc doesn't contain a valid partition table fafner:~# fdisk -l /dev/hdd Disk /dev/hdd: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Disk /dev/hdd doesn't contain a valid partition table fafner:~# pvcreate /dev/hdb ; pvcreate /dev/hdc ; pvcreate /dev/hdd ; Physical volume "/dev/hdb" successfully created Physical volume "/dev/hdc" successfully created Physical volume "/dev/hdd" successfully created fafner:~# pvdisplay --- NEW Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hdc VG Name PV Size 74.53 GB Allocatable NO PE Size (KByte) 0 Total PE 0 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 0 PV UUID E725Ui-iBDc-r5uf-6vKi-L4Yw-9yzV-aJ2blr --- NEW Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hdb VG Name PV Size 74.53 GB Allocatable NO PE Size (KByte) 0 Total PE 0 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 0 PV UUID TAfTgW-0In0-TZzF-mZoy-RsG5-v0DS-IHBvu1 --- NEW Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hdd VG Name PV Size 74.53 GB Allocatable NO PE Size (KByte) 0 Total PE 0 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 0 PV UUID mecykK-bBKE-0wCP-W7jZ-b0g2-O697-xW4zPS fafner:~# pvscan PV /dev/hdb lvm2 [74.53 GB] PV /dev/hdd lvm2 [74.53 GB] Total: 2 [149.06 GB] / in use: 0 [0 ] / in no VG: 2 [149.06 GB] fafner:~# vgcreate vg1 /dev/hdb /dev/hdc /dev/hdd Volume group "vg1" successfully created fafner:~# vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Couldn't find device with uuid 'E725Ui-iBDc-r5uf-6vKi-L4Yw-9yzV-aJ2blr'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group vg1. Couldn't find device with uuid 'E725Ui-iBDc-r5uf-6vKi-L4Yw-9yzV-aJ2blr'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group vg1. Volume group "vg1" not found Any advice would be much welcome! Cheers, Thomas Krichel mailto:krichel@openlib.org http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel