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 i6KBE8a28509 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 07:14:08 -0400 Received: from behqexch01.intra.tinc.be (tinc-associates-gw.xdsl.easynet.be [81.188.68.35]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6KBE1Xn011313 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 07:14:02 -0400 Message-ID: <40FCFE72.9030106@pi.be> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:13:54 +0200 From: David Claessens MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] unable to create permanent physical volume on /dev/hdc 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"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Hi, I have a machine with 4 disks assigned to LVM. I recently re-installed this machine and upgraded it to a custom compiled 2.6 kernel (2.6.7 to be specific) but now I'm having troubles recreating my LVM. I have assigned /dev/hda6, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc en /dev/hdd to LVM with the 'pvcreate' command without any error (I did run the dd command from the howto first). When I run 'pvs' I see my 4 physical volumes, however when I run 'pvscan' it only lists 3 of the 4 physical volumes. /dev/hdc is missing from the list. When I run 'pvs' again it now also only shows 3 of the 4 physical volumes. However if I run 'pvs /dev/hdc' it shows me my 4 physical volumes, 'pvscan' always shows only 3. Also after running 'pvscan', I can run 'pvcreate' again on /dev/hdc without any error and running 'pvs' without any arguments will show 4 volumes. I have no problems creating a primary partition spanning the disk. However running 'pvcreate /dev/hdc1' also works without an error but it still won't show up in a pvscan. What could be the problem that hdc won't be a physical volume or what commands could/should I run to more accurately debug/fix the problem ?? The system is running on Debian 3.0 upgraded to testing and I have a duplicate with the same setup that is running without any problem. Also LVM2 is working perfectly using the 3 working physical volumes.