Laurentiu Simion(lsimion@rogers.com)@Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 10:17:30AM -0500: > What's the output of pvscan? > [root@box guest]# pvscan pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0/disc" is in no VG [28.63 GB] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/disc" is in no VG [28.63 GB] pvscan -- total: 2 [57.26 GB] / in use: 0 [0] / in no VG: 2 [57.26 GB] note: i've switched over from using partitions, to entire disks. just tried using the long devfs names, as printed above and it works fine! argggh. thats me being dumb. -vince /me goes back to hiding in the corner. > Laurentiu > > On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 10:04, Vincent AE Scott wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- PGP key: http://codex.net/pgp/pgp.asc 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2. _______________________________________________ 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
