> I had two PVs, hdc (whole disk) and hda4 (partition), in VG vg01. This > VG contains one LV called 'home'. > > I wanted to add a 120G disk, hdb, so I did 'pvcreate /dev/hdb'. After > some discusssion it was decided that we did not want to give the whole > disk to LVM, so I partitioned the disk (thinking that the PV > structures > would be overwritten that way) and did 'pvcreate /dev/hdb4', the other > three partitions being normal non-LVM partitions. > > Then we decided to change our file system to ReiserFS so I > added hdb4 to > the vg01 group, created a LV "newhome" inside (spanning the hdb4 > partition), formatted this LV with REiserfs, and copied > everything from > the (still mounted) 'home' LV over. > > Then I rebooted. did you reboot to update your partition table BEFORE creating your PVs?? _______________________________________________ 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/
