Hi there, i have a problem with some newly partioned up disks, i've created two LVM partions on two different disks. upon executing the following commands, vgcreate fails: [root@box guest]# pvcreate /dev/hde2 pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/hde2" successfully created [root@box guest]# pvcreate /dev/hdg2 pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/hdg2" successfully created [root@box guest]# vgcreate vg /dev/hde2 /dev/hdg2 vgcreate -- no valid physical volumes in command line here's a snipit from the tail end of vgcreate -d: <1> pv_read_all_pv -- calling stat with "/dev/loop/7" <22> pv_read -- CALLED with /dev/loop/7 <333> pv_check_name -- CALLED with "/dev/loop/7" <4444> lvm_check_chars -- CALLED with name: "/dev/loop/7" <4444> lvm_check_chars -- LEAVING with ret: 0 <333> pv_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: 0 <22> pv_read -- going to read /dev/loop/7 <22> pv_read -- LEAVING with ret: -282 <1> pv_read_all_pv -- pv_read returned: -282 <1> pv_read_all_pv -- avoiding multiple entries in case of MD; np: 2 <1> pv_read_all_pv -- LEAVING with ret: 0 <1> pv_check_name -- CALLED with "/dev/hde2" <22> lvm_check_chars -- CALLED with name: "/dev/hde2" <22> lvm_check_chars -- LEAVING with ret: 0 <1> pv_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: 0 <1> pv_check_name -- CALLED with "/dev/hdg2" <22> lvm_check_chars -- CALLED with name: "/dev/hdg2" <22> lvm_check_chars -- LEAVING with ret: 0 <1> pv_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: 0 vgcreate -- no valid physical volumes in command line Now, the only thing i can think of, is this disk *used* to have an LVM on it, (vg+lv) but i have since removed it from the disk, in favour of this new attempt. i cant see how it could possibly be a problem, but maybe there's something lurking in the FS. Does anyone have any dieas whats wrong? im running lvm 1.0.3 on 2.4.18 -- PGP key: http://codex.net/pgp/pgp.asc C:\> File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N) _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
