From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Cc: f-lvm@media.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] pvcreate can't use entire disk?
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:35:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060123223516.GN4280@agk.surrey.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601232226.RAA22595@out-of-band.media.mit.edu>
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 05:26:00PM -0500, f-lvm@media.mit.edu wrote:
> "Device /dev/hdd not found." The disk is surely online: I can
> I would have -expected- pvcreate to complain about a partition table
> existing
The currrent internal structure of LVM2 makes that difficult.
Add -vvvv to commands for more information like that.
Invalid devices are filtered out at a low level in the libraries
so tools such as 'pvcreate' never see them.
If your disk has a partition table, then LVM2 insists you use those
partitions to reduce the risk of accidents.
> (at which point I would have zeroed it and tried again)
Did you try that?
(And then you might need to run 'vgscan'.)
Alasdair
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agk@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-23 22:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-23 22:26 [linux-lvm] pvcreate can't use entire disk? f-lvm
2006-01-23 22:35 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2006-01-23 23:02 ` f-lvm
2006-01-24 14:55 ` AJ Lewis
2006-01-24 18:45 ` f-lvm
2006-01-24 18:53 ` [linux-lvm] how to use mirror function of lvcreate? Tom Callahan
2006-01-23 23:12 ` [linux-lvm] pvcreate can't use entire disk? Karl O. Pinc
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2006-01-23 22:02 f-lvm
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