Weird, the patch that is causing you the problem will be: http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/patches/2.5-stable/2.5.50/2.5.50-dm-2/00005.patch <http://people.sistina.com/%7Ethornber/patches/2.5-stable/2.5.50/2.5.50-dm-2/00005.patch> Though it still looks sane to me. Can you send me the lvm2 log from this vgchange along with the size in sectors of hdb7 please ? - Joe
Sure - here is more information about my system - the PVs as below Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 7297 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 1044 8385898+ a5 FreeBSD /dev/hdb2 1045 7297 50227222+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hdb5 1045 2088 8385898+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hdb6 2089 4699 20972826 8e Linux LVM /dev/hdb7 4700 7297 20868403+ 8e Linux LVM lvm pvdisplay --verbose Scanning for physical volume names --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hdb6 VG Name vg00 PV Size 20.00GB / not usable 5.28MB Allocatable yes (but full) PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 5119 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 5119 PV UUID vuszz2-2qjg-ArUm-k1dV-GjHO-86ZM-HGYCZo --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hdb7 VG Name vg00 PV Size 19.90GB / not usable 7.30MB Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 5093 Free PE 292 Allocated PE 4801 PV UUID p3a5G3-HJjq-L9Gl-KGQN-Pi45-fBJT-RVE2ms Output of lvm vgchange -ay --verbose (BTW I just noticed an ioctl complaint - don't know what it means) lvm vgchange -ay --verbose device-mapper ioctl cmd 2 failed: Invalid argument Couldn't load device 'vg00-LVmisc'. Finding all volume groups Finding volume group "vg00" 3 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg00" already active Found volume group "vg00" Found volume group "vg00" Found volume group "vg00" Loading vg00-LVmisc Found volume group "vg00" Found volume group "vg00" Found volume group "vg00" Found volume group "vg00" Found volume group "vg00" Activated logical volumes in volume group "vg00" 3 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg00" now active device-mapper: allocating minor 0. device-mapper: device /dev/hdb7 too small for target device-mapper: internal error adding target to table device-mapper: destroying table device-mapper: allocating minor 1. device-mapper: allocating minor 2. There ought to be 4 LVs and minors; when the system is right I get lvm lvscan ACTIVE '/dev/vg00/LVhome' [10.00GB] next free ACTIVE '/dev/vg00/LVmisc' [20.00GB] next free ACTIVE '/dev/vg00/LVjfs' [8.00GB] next free ACTIVE '/dev/vg00/LVswap' [768.00MB] next free Thanks Richard _______________________________________________ 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/
