On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:21:50AM +0200, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
>
> Jens,
Hello!
> did you use "vgremove /dev/hdb" before you changed the partition table
> to use hdb4 as a PV ? (the metadata backup seems to reflect you did).
I didn't even add it to the VG in the first place. I only used pvcreate
and then decided against it.
> Because the partition table is located at the end of sector 1 on hdb
> and there seems to be a PV staructure at the beginning still (strange
> if you used vgremove on hdb), this should help:
Ah. Good to know. (this should be in the HOWTO :)
> # to save the existing partition sector
> dd if=/dev/hdb of=hdb.s1 bs=512 count=1
> # to overwrite the start of the PV structure
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb bs=128 count=1
> vgscan;vgchange -ay
That did it! THANK YOU!!!
--
mfg, Jens Benecke
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