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From: Joep Blom <jlblom@neuroweave.nl>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: [linux-lvm] problem when creating a volumegroup on an external drive
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 13:28:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44647168.3030205@neuroweave.nl> (raw)

Hi,
I'm new to the list and new to the use of LVM. I have read the manuals 
(which mainly are for LVM1) and am using LVM2.
I have one question. I just created a new volumegroup on an USB external 
disk.
As the manual says I did : pvcreate /dev/sda but that did't work but 
pvcreate /dev/sda1 worked.
I then did a vgcreate VG01, expecting to get one volume group for the 
whole disk (250 GB). However, it created 2 volumegroups, one named 
VolGroup00  of 46.6 GB and one VG01 (as expected) of 232.8 GB. The 
problem is I have on another 2 disks already a VolGroup00 so I cannot do 
an lvcreate VolGroup00 as this will try to access the earlier created one.
Can anybody explain why an unrequested volumegroup is created and how 
can I solve this.
I cannot do a vgdelete VolGroup00 as this will destroy my current - 
working - system.
Hope somebody knows the answers.
Thanks
Joep

             reply	other threads:[~2006-05-12 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-12 11:28 Joep Blom [this message]
2006-05-12 12:16 ` [linux-lvm] problem when creating a volumegroup on an external drive Patrick Caulfield
2006-05-12 14:50   ` Joep Blom
2006-05-12 14:57     ` Klaus Strebel
2006-05-12 22:25       ` Joep Blom
2006-05-13  1:49         ` Ming Zhang
2006-05-13  8:19           ` Joep Blom
2006-05-13 10:20             ` Markus Laire
2006-05-14 21:42               ` Joep Blom
2006-05-15  8:42                 ` Markus Laire
2006-05-15  9:14                   ` Joep Blom
2006-05-13 15:42             ` Ming Zhang

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