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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:31:59 +0000
From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvcreate gives 'device-mapper: reload ioctl failed:
	Invalid argument'
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To: Matt McHenry <jerith@speakeasy.org>
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On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 05:26:55PM -0400, Matt McHenry wrote:
> thought that maybe one of my pvs was bad, so I tried to add a new pv 
> (sda12) and migrate off of the most-recently-added one (sda11), but the 

Could you have created the new one by subtracting space from the old one?
You need to undo that change to the partition table.

Alasdair
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