From: Micha Holzmann <holzmann@gmx.de>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] pvcreate succeeds but vgcreate cannot read label
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:04:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061018140425.GA10885@mail.mhnet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610181348420.15257@saturn.retrosnub.co.uk>
Hi Malcolm,
Quoting Malcolm Scott:
> When I run pvcreate on a partition, it seems the PV label is successfully
> written to the partition, but vgcreate cannot then read this label in order
> to incorporate this new PV into a new VG.
>
> mas90@neptune ~ $ sudo pvcreate /dev/hda6
> Physical volume "/dev/hda6" successfully created
>
> mas90@neptune ~ $ sudo vgcreate neptune_vg /dev/hda6
> No physical volume label read from /dev/hda6
> /dev/hda6 not identified as an existing physical volume
> Unable to add physical volume '/dev/hda6' to volume group 'neptune_vg'.
>
> What could cause this?
>
> The system is running Ubuntu Edgy, with the following versions:
i assume that you have the standard installation. Having this, you have
evms installed. So will need to use /dev/evms/hdax. Please check this.
Best regards,
Micha Holzmann
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-18 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-18 12:49 [linux-lvm] pvcreate succeeds but vgcreate cannot read label Malcolm Scott
2006-10-18 14:04 ` Micha Holzmann [this message]
2006-10-18 14:07 ` Malcolm Scott
2006-10-18 14:34 ` Alasdair G Kergon
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2006-10-18 12:01 Malcolm Scott
2006-11-01 16:07 ` Alasdair G Kergon
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