Re: [linux-lvm] Can't pvcreate second partition...

[Glenn Shannon <glenn@gecpalau.com>]

I have....my system has some sort of leftover 4.2BSD partitioning ghost (I
removed all partitions before I installed linux) that remains from my days with
OpenBSD. As a result fdisk does not work, in fact it segfaults. And using
anything else, I have to reboot before I can make use of the partitions.

Wierdness.

Glenn

AJ Lewis wrote:

> On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:13:38PM -0600, Diehl, Jeffrey wrote:
> > The problem with this theory is that I'm running 2.2.18, not 2.4.x.
>
> Doh. I guess it isn't a 2.4x only problem then.  ;)  Very odd.  Has anyone
> seen this when the LVM patches are not applied?
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: AJ Lewis [mailto:lewis@sistina.com]
> > > Sent: May 06, 2001 10:12 PM
> > > To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
> > > Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Can't pvcreate second partition...
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:36:13AM -0700, Darren Young wrote:
> > > > Funny, I had the same issue at the same time. I
> > > > created /dev/hdb7 with fdisk and then a pvcreate just
> > > > after. pvcreate stated that the dev didn't exist.
> > > > Reboot fixed the problem. This could be a problem for
> > > > machines already up in production with small windows
> > > > for restarts. Why is this necessary and will it become
> > > > a "non-issue" in future releases? If this will be
> > > > necessary forever, then some simple planning would
> > > > solve the problem, at least on new installations. Any
> > > > way around this?
> > >
> > > This appears to be an issue with fdisk and the 2.4.x series
> > > Linux kernels.
> > > It has nothing to do with LVM as far as i can tell.  I've had
> > > problems where
> > > I run fdisk to change the size of a partition, but linux
> > > doesn't detect the
> > > change.  /proc/partitions is identical before and after i
> > > attempt to write
> > > out the changes with fdisk.  I'm not sure what has caused this. Maybe
> > > someone else on the list knows?
> > >
> > > I'll try to verify this when i get into work tomorrow.
> > >
> > > Regards,
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