On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 19:21 +0200, Markku Kolkka wrote: > Les kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai 13 tammikuu 2007 > 19:00): > > I used parted and mke2fs to create my disk partitions and > > format them. > (...) > > Problem: LVM doesn't see the volume as initialized. > > You set up a normal disk partition, not a LVM volume. If you > intended to add your new disk to LVM, you have done a lot of > useless work that you must undo before you can start using LVM. > Move your home directory back to / and remove the partition from > fstab. > > > Either > > new instructions or a link to something that explains it in > > detail. > > The LVM howto has instructions for adding a new drive to an > existing LVM system: > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/recipeadddisk.html > > -- > Markku Kolkka > markku.kolkka@xxxxxx > My ongoing disk battle... Hi, Markku, I attempted to follow the instructions on the site you quoted here, but the command e2fsadm is not on my system. I am running yum whatprovides now to get it. Here is what I have done so far: [root@localhost ~]# fdisk /dev/hdb The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 36481. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 1 Partition 1 is already defined. Delete it before re-adding it. Command (m for help): m Command action a toggle a bootable flag b edit bsd disklabel c toggle the dos compatibility flag d delete a partition l list known partition types m print this menu n add a new partition o create a new empty DOS partition table p print the partition table q quit without saving changes s create a new empty Sun disklabel t change a partition's system id u change display/entry units v verify the partition table w write table to disk and exit x extra functionality (experts only) Command (m for help): d Partition number (1-4): 1 Command (m for help): d Selected partition 2 Command (m for help): l 0 Empty 1e Hidden W95 FAT1 80 Old Minix be Solaris boot 1 FAT12 24 NEC DOS 81 Minix / old Lin bf Solaris 2 XENIX root 39 Plan 9 82 Linux swap / So c1 DRDOS/sec (FAT- 3 XENIX usr 3c PartitionMagic 83 Linux c4 DRDOS/sec (FAT- 4 FAT16 <32M 40 Venix 80286 84 OS/2 hidden C: c6 DRDOS/sec (FAT- 5 Extended 41 PPC PReP Boot 85 Linux extended c7 Syrinx 6 FAT16 42 SFS 86 NTFS volume set da Non-FS data 7 HPFS/NTFS 4d QNX4.x 87 NTFS volume set db CP/M / CTOS / . 8 AIX 4e QNX4.x 2nd part 88 Linux plaintext de Dell Utility 9 AIX bootable 4f QNX4.x 3rd part 8e Linux LVM df BootIt a OS/2 Boot Manag 50 OnTrack DM 93 Amoeba e1 DOS access b W95 FAT32 51 OnTrack DM6 Aux 94 Amoeba BBT e3 DOS R/O c W95 FAT32 (LBA) 52 CP/M 9f BSD/OS e4 SpeedStor e W95 FAT16 (LBA) 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux a0 IBM Thinkpad hi eb BeOS fs f W95 Ext'd (LBA) 54 OnTrackDM6 a5 FreeBSD ee EFI GPT 10 OPUS 55 EZ-Drive a6 OpenBSD ef EFI (FAT-12/16/ 11 Hidden FAT12 56 Golden Bow a7 NeXTSTEP f0 Linux/PA-RISC b 12 Compaq diagnost 5c Priam Edisk a8 Darwin UFS f1 SpeedStor 14 Hidden FAT16 <3 61 SpeedStor a9 NetBSD f4 SpeedStor 16 Hidden FAT16 63 GNU HURD or Sys ab Darwin boot f2 DOS secondary 17 Hidden HPFS/NTF 64 Novell Netware b7 BSDI fs fd Linux raid auto 18 AST SmartSleep 65 Novell Netware b8 BSDI swap fe LANstep 1b Hidden W95 FAT3 70 DiskSecure Mult bb Boot Wizard hid ff BBT 1c Hidden W95 FAT3 75 PC/IX Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hdb: 300.0 GB, 300069052416 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36481 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 1 First cylinder (1-36481, default 1): 1 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-36481, default 36481): 500 Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 2 First cylinder (501-36481, default 501): Using default value 501 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (501-36481, default 36481): 36481 Command (m for help): t Partition number (1-4): 1 Hex code (type L to list codes): 8e Changed system type of partition 1 to 8e (Linux LVM) Command (m for help): t Partition number (1-4): 2 Hex code (type L to list codes): 8e Changed system type of partition 2 to 8e (Linux LVM) Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered! Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. Syncing disks. [root@localhost ~]# pvcreate /dev/hdb1 Physical volume "/dev/hdb1" successfully created [root@localhost ~]# pvcreate /dev/hdb2 Physical volume "/dev/hdb2" successfully created [root@localhost ~]# vgextend ops /dev/hdb1 Volume group "ops" not found. [root@localhost ~]# man vgcreate Formatting page, please wait... [root@localhost ~]# vgcreate second /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdb2 Volume group "second" successfully created [root@localhost ~]# pvscan PV /dev/hdb1 VG second lvm2 [3.83 GB / 3.83 GB free] PV /dev/hdb2 VG second lvm2 [275.62 GB / 275.62 GB free] PV /dev/hda2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [14.19 GB / 32.00 MB free] Total: 3 [293.64 GB] / in use: 3 [293.64 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] [root@localhost ~]# export E2FSADM_RESIZE_CMD=ext2resize [root@localhost ~]# e2fsadm /dev/ops/batch -L+500M -bash: e2fsadm: command not found Does anyone else have anything to add to my process here? I am still waiting for results of the yum whatprovides e2fsadm. Regards, Les H