-----Original Message----- >> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:30:42AM -0500, Bryan Ragon wrote: >> # fdisk -l /dev/hdb >> /dev/hdb1 1 14593 117218241 83 Linux >> (Is that a proper Id? Plus, looking at my media_vg backup, I don't >> believe there should be a partition because the hint is /dev/hdb, not >> /dev/hdb1) >> device = "/dev/hdb" # Hint only >Chances are you didn't remove the partition table before using the entire unpartitioned device as a physical >volume, or ran pvcreate on /dev/hdb when you intended to use hdb1. >(Recent lvm2 versions of pvcreate handle this better.) >Try removing the partition table. >[eg delete the partition with fdisk/parted, or write 512 zero bytes to the start of /dev/hdb - >back it up first - and run blockdev --rereadpt] Here is a detailed list of steps that worked: ;; first backed up the first 512 bytes of /dev/hdb # dd if=/dev/hdb of=~/hdb.first512 count=1 bs=512 1+0 records in 1+0 records out ;; zero them out, per Alasdair # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb count=1 bs=512 1+0 records in 1+0 records out ;; verified # blockdev --rereadpt /dev/hdb BLKRRPART: Input/output error ;; find the volumes # vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "media_vg" using metadata type lvm2 # pvscan PV /dev/hdb VG media_vg lvm2 [111.79 GB / 0 free] Total: 1 [111.79 GB] / in use: 1 [111.79 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] # lvmdiskscan /dev/hda1 [ 494.16 MB] /dev/hda2 [ 1.92 GB] /dev/hda3 [ 18.65 GB] /dev/hdb [ 111.79 GB] LVM physical volume /dev/hdd1 [ 71.59 GB] 0 disks 4 partitions 1 LVM physical volume whole disk 0 LVM physical volumes # vgchange -a y 1 logical volume(s) in volume group "media_vg" now active ;; /media is a defined mount point in fstab, listed below for future archive searches # mount /media # ls /media graphics lost+found movies music Success!! Thank you, Alasdair!!!! /etc/fstab <snip> /dev/media_vg/media_lv /media ext3 noatime 0 0 <snip> _______________________________________________ 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/
