On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 03:01:10PM +0100, Roman Medina-Heigl Hernandez wrote: > When trying to create PV, I got the following error: > jupiter:/# pvcreate /dev/mapper/crypt10 > /dev/mapper/crypt10: Couldn't find device. By default LVM2 won't let you turn mapped devices into PVs, or if you're not careful you could get things horribly tangled up. (e.g. create pv2 on lv1 in vg1, then add pv2 to vg1...) > I know how to temporaly fix the problem by adding the device to > /etc/lvm/.cache. Don't edit that file: the tools are free to regenerate it whenever they wish. > filter = [ "a|/dev/mapper/crypt.*|" ] > scan = [ "/dev/mapper" "/dev" ] As long as you understand how to avoid recursion like the example above, you can edit the 'types =' line to include "device-mapper". [The 16 or whatever after it is for historic reasons - nothing currently uses it.] Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com _______________________________________________ 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/
