i have forgoten my mail : svetljo@lycos.com galia@st-peter.stw.uni-erlangen.de i'll be tankfull for any idea write me and one more question : can i make a VG and LV's over LV's the idea is replacing the linear sofware RAID with a linear LV's, but i think i'll have the same roblems that i had with the raid the LV ( lvcreate -i3 -I4 -L26G -nMusic ) the VG -> myData /dev/hdh10 /dev/linVG1/linLV1 /dev/linVG2/linLV2 /dev/hdh10 normal partition 14G /dev/linVG1/linLV1 -> linear LV 14G /dev/hde6 /dev/hde12 /dev/linVg2/linLV2 -> linear LV 14G /dev/hdg1 /dev/hdg5 /dev/hdg6 /dev/hdg12 > Hi i couldn't change the partition's id of the RAID but i mannaged it > to create the VG, LV and to format the LV > but when i try to mount the the LV mount segfaults and every try to > do anything with the LV finish witth a sleep > i mean when i try to mount anything ( a partition, a CD or a LV) after > the segfault of the first ' mount -t xfs /dev/myData/Music /mnt/music > ' mount goes to sleep and do not do anything > vgdisplay says that the volume is activ > lvremove says that the volume is open and can not be removed > do you have an idea wthat is the problem > and what can i try > > the LV ( lvcreate -i3 -I4 -L26G -nMusic ) > > the VG -> myData /dev/hdh10 /dev/md6 /dev/md7 > > /dev/hdh10 normal partition 14G > /dev/md6 -> linear software RAID 14G /dev/hde6 /dev/hde12 > /dev/md7 -> linear software RAID 14G /dev/hdg1 /dev/hdg5 /dev/hdg6 > /dev/hdg12 > > the reason: > > after trying BeOS, FreeBSD and useing windows , i was trying to switch > complete to linux without having to repartiton all the drives( i have > tree ) > and lose about 30G of Data + and a new instalation ( the current Data > and instalation is over a software RAID-0 other a striped LV's or to > back up 30 Gigs of Data > AJ Lewis wrote: > >>On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 03:26:38PM +0200, svetljo wrote: >> >>>Hi i saw your postings on the lvm-board >>>and i was woundering whether you can help me >>> >>>can you plese tell me how can i change the type of 'partition' on >>>md-device (softweare Linear RAID ) >>>i can not make it with fdisk on md-device >>> >>>i have 3 disks with a lot of partitions and i wanted to build striped >>>LV's on a new VG >>>i've created the VG ( /dev/md5 /dev/md6 /dev/hdh10 ) >>>but when i try to create LV's it returns to me that not all PV's are >>>online ( md5 ) >>>and /proc/mdstat tells me that everything is ok : >>> md5 ( /dev/hde6 /dev/hde12 linear) and md6 (/dev/hdg1 /dev/hdg2 >>>/dev/hdg8 linear) are online >>>but they are marked as ext2 partitions >>> >>>can you please help me >>> >> >>I'm sorry. I don't personally have any experience using md. I suggest you >>post this to linux-lvm. There should be people there that have done what >>you're proposing. >> >>>linux-2.4.9-xfs-cvs with LVM 1.0.1rc1 >>> >> >>Regards, >> > >
