I fixed the problem. I initialized the RAID 5 array, which must have erased whatever was causing the problem. Because now my pvcreate works just fine. Thanks! alex On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Alexander Lazarevich wrote: > i just installed a fresh RH linux 7.3, with LVM 1, or whatever comes in > the RH distribution. > > ihe first thing i'm trying to do is pvcreate on my big RAID 5 array, which > is /dev/sdb: > > [root@discord root]# pvcreate /dev/sdb > pvcreate -- ERROR: can't initialize physical volume "/dev/sdb" of volume > group "homevg" without -ff > > but there is no volume group homevg: > > [root@discord root]# vgdisplay homevg > vgdisplay -- volume group "homevg" not found > > i am able to fdisk a partition onto /dev/sdb, and then do a pvcreate on > that partition, but i want to do a pvcreate on the whole free volume, no > partitions! i may have made a typo before, by trying to do a pvcreate > /dev/sdb, i instead did a vgcreate /dev/sdb. and them i might have tried > some other crap cause it was freeking out. i rebooted so i can see the > history, unless lvm keeps some kind of log file? i couldnt find one. > > i rebooted, etc. id prefer not to have to reinstall everything. how do i > fix this problem? > > any ideas? > > thanks in advance! > > alex > --- --- > Alex Lazarevich | Systems | Imaging Technology Group > alazarev@itg.uiuc.edu | (217)244-1565 | www.itg.uiuc.edu > --- --- > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
