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From: Peter Rajnoha <prajnoha@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>,
	George Brian <biangw@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] How to place LVM2 metadata to other disks which don't belong to any volume group?
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 14:50:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52AB1088.6000003@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+Q0qhcU8Wbu8oGaCm13m9-LR3nz3am+5zAQ+B8PsCk7eBPG=w@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/13/2013 08:15 AM, George Brian wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thank for your reply.
> 
> I read about "lvm.conf" and "man pvcreate" and practice like your
> instruction.
> but it's hard to meet my expection.
> 
> I do as follows:
> 1, setting lvm.conf to dirs
> 2, pvcreate --pvmetadatacopies 0
> 3, vgcreate on pv 
> Aborting vg_write: No metadata areas to write to!
> 

Make sure you have the "metadata" section uncommented for the
"dirs" setting to take effect.

-- 
Peter

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-13 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-11  7:06 [linux-lvm] How to place LVM2 metadata to other disks which don't belong to any volume group? George Brian
2013-12-11 14:19 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2013-12-13  7:15   ` George Brian
2013-12-13 13:50     ` Peter Rajnoha [this message]
2013-12-13 14:31     ` Peter Rajnoha

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