Just a guess, if /dev/sda is a symlink have you tried passing the full device name to vgcreate? I.E. vgcreate group1 /dev/scsi/host1... ----- Original Message ----- From: "蔡滢" <yearn_cai@usish.com> To: "linux-lvm@redhat.com" <linux-lvm@redhat.com> Subject: pvcreate is successful but can't vgcreate Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:10:19 +0800 > > i want to use LVM to manage my SATA disks attached on arm system and: > > pvcreate /dev/sda > Physical volume "/dev/sda" successfully created > > vgcreate group1 /dev/sda > No physical volume label read from /dev/sda > /dev/sda not identified as an existing physical volume > Unable to add physical volume '/dev/sda' to volume group 'group1'. > > what's wrong and why? > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
