Dan, change your lvm2 "devices" configuration in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf to include: types = [ "device-mapper", 254 ] Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:05:08PM +0100, Dan Johansson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to this list, but not to Linux and LVM. > I'm trying to setup a new Linux-server with an on board RAID-controller > (Promise PDC20265 FastTrak100 Lite/Ultra100). Now everything goes well until > I try to do a pvcreate on one of the raid-partitions, this is the output I > get: > # pvcreate /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf4 > Device /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf4 not found. > > But the device-file is there (along with the other partitions). > > # ll /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf* > brw------- 1 root root 253, 7 Nov 4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf > brw------- 1 root root 253, 8 Nov 4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf1 > brw------- 1 root root 253, 9 Nov 4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf2 > brw------- 1 root root 253, 10 Nov 4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf3 > brw------- 1 root root 253, 11 Nov 4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf4 > > and dmraid shows the raidgroup OK: > # dmraid -s > *** Active Set > name : pdc_edcfibbf > size : 160086465 > stride : 128 > type : mirror > status : ok > subsets: 0 > devs : 2 > spares : 0 > > Any suggestions on how I can solve this issue and move on with my > installation. > > Regards, > -- > Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> > *************************************************** > This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! > *************************************************** > _______________________________________________ > 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/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 Cluster and Storage Development 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@RedHat.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ 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/
