On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 17:38, Steven Lembark wrote: > > > -- Rich Turner <rich@storix.com> > > > The following is a situation where LVM fails. > > > > Previously, I installed a system and created a physical volume on an > > entire disk. I am now re-installing the system and have created a > > physical volume on a partition on the same disk. The partition was > > created with sfdisk. I am able to create volume groups and logical > > volumes with no problem. > > > > The problem arises after a reboot of the system. vgscan fails to find > > any volume groups. pvscan finds physical volumes on both the disk and > > the partition. It appears LVM fails when creating a physical volume on a > > partition of a disk when there was previously a physical volume on the > > same entire disk. > > > > Using LVM 1.0.1 > > (1) 1.0.1 is pretty badly out of date; suggest updating to > 1.0.6 or 2.X. I will upgrade to 1.0.6 and see if there are any changes > > (2) Running pvcreate on a full device (e.g., /dev/hda) then > again on /dev/hdaX will end up overwriting a portion of > the contents in your first PV with the second one. LVM > did exactly what you wanted it to. How is the a bug. LVM did not do what I wanted, it failed. On a new install it still see's a full device physical volume from a previous install. My new install has only one physical volume on a partition. It fails because vgscan can not find any volume groups because pvscan is looking for the now non-existent physical volume on the entire disk. > > > > > > -- > Steven Lembark 2930 W. Palmer > Workhorse Computing Chicago, IL 60647 > +1 773 252 1080 > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
