On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 19:48 +0300, Itay wrote: > > From: William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > From: Itay <itayf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Also, I just started working with lvm. The following warnings > > > are genertated whenever I run one of lvm commands on the external > > > usb disk (MyBook by Western Digital). > > [snip] > > > > [root@frodo pilpel10]# vgcreate VGe1 /dev/sdc2 > > > Did you do pvcreate? > > As far as I remember -- yes. > When I return to my office, at the beginning of next week, I'll > look at the terminal session to see the exact command sequence. > But my conviction is reinforced by the output of pvscan and > pvdisplay (wasn't in the original message) below. > > > > /dev/dm-11: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 5242814464: Input/output error > > > /dev/dm-11: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error > > > /dev/dm-12: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 54460416: Input/output error > > > /dev/dm-12: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error > [snip] > > > Volume group "VGe1" successfully created > > > > [root@frodo pilpel10]# pvscan > > > /dev/dm-11: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 5242814464: Input/output error > > > /dev/dm-11: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error > [snip] > > > PV /dev/sdc2 VG VGe1 lvm2 [296.13 GB / 296.13 GB free] > > > PV /dev/sda2 VG VG00 lvm2 [232.78 GB / 1.78 GB free] > > > Total: 2 [528.91 GB] / in use: 2 [528.91 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] > > > > [root@frodo ~]# pvdisplay /dev/sdc2 > /dev/dm-11: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error > /dev/dm-12: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error > /dev/dm-13: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error > /dev/dm-14: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/sdc2 > VG Name VGe1 > PV Size 296.13 GB / not usable 0 > Allocatable yes > PE Size (KByte) 4096 > Total PE 75810 > Free PE 24098 > Allocated PE 51712 > PV UUID Ue56s5-nkax-csIU-6iBX-l4eb-hIJ1-nxJLgl > > > Thanks, > Itay We are about to exceed my knowledge, as I have never used USB for anything other than thumb drives on MS Win*. I believe I asked about partitioning? If you do sfdisk -l /dev/sdc what does it show? If you do a dd if=/dev/sdc2 of=/dev/null do you get I/O errors? If so, my guess is it's not an LVM problem. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Bill
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