Not sure what problems you were having with creating your volume group but I freed up some disk space and created VG00 just to be sure: le:~# vgcreate VG00 /dev/hda4 Volume group "VG00" successfully created le:~# vgdisplay VG00 --- Volume group --- VG Name VG00 System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 1 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 0 Open LV 0 Max PV 0 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 9.44 GB PE Size 4.00 MB Total PE 2417 Alloc PE / Size 0 / 0 Free PE / Size 2417 / 9.44 GB VG UUID DFHRBm-Jxsv-ZYXG-PYPx-3pv0-vYj3-pRIe7O --- Sam Rogers <srogers@redshift.com> wrote: > But there is a major problem. LVM2 will not (from > what I can see) > recognize volume group names like VG00. I do not > understand? Why type > Volgroup00 when VG00 is quicker. In the HPUX version > you can name the > volume group and logical volume anything you want. I > don't see why we > can't do the same. It took me over a year to figure > why LVM2 was not > working in an install until I gave up naming the > volume group and let it > default to Volgroup00. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail _______________________________________________ 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/
