From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4CEoJp1012275 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 10:50:19 -0400 Received: from amsfep18-int.chello.nl (amsfep17-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.15]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4CEoH7Y000576 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 10:50:18 -0400 Received: from laguna.nwhq.nl ([213.46.145.128]) by amsfep17-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.6.01.04.04 201-2131-118-104-20050224) with ESMTP id <20060512144850.CVPS19426.amsfep17-int.chello.nl@laguna.nwhq.nl> for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 16:48:50 +0200 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (velsatis.nwhq.nl [192.168.100.33]) by laguna.nwhq.nl (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4CEmnx9000840 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 16:48:50 +0200 Message-ID: <4464A0BE.7070509@neuroweave.nl> Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 16:50:38 +0200 From: Joep Blom MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] problem when creating a volumegroup on an external drive References: <44647168.3030205@neuroweave.nl> <44647CA0.3010509@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <44647CA0.3010509@redhat.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: LVM general discussion and development Patrick Caulfield wrote: >Joep Blom wrote: > > >>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. >> >> >> > > >It's fantastically unlikely that a single 'vgcreate VG0' command would create >two VGs. > >What is much more likely is that VolGroup00 already existed and you just >didn't notice it. That's the default name for a volume group created by a >Fedora install BTW > >patrick > >_______________________________________________ >linux-lvm mailing list >linux-lvm@redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm >read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > > > Patrick, Thanks for the quick reply. However, this is external USB disk (250Gb and I just added it to the system as a backup disk. FC5 was running and before I did anything the disk was formatted as a FAT32 disk I then did a pvcreate. When I checked the disk was empty (as was expected). The vgcreate did the strange thing, which is a problem as I cant remove this VolGroup00 as there exists one on the other (2) disks and when I asses VolGroup00 it rightly goes to the original VolGroup00, which I cannot delete. I think the only solution is fdisk and see if it will free the whole disk. But any other ideas? Joep