And now I do: vdr:~# vgchange -an LVM2 vgchange -- volume group "LVM2" successfully deactivated vdr:~# pvcreate -vff /dev/hdc1 pvcreate -- locking logical volume manager pvcreate -- checking physical volume name "/dev/hdc1" pvcreate -- getting physical volume size pvcreate -- checking maximum physical volume size pvcreate -- checking partition type pvcreate -- checking volume group name pvcreate -- really INITIALIZE physical volume "/dev/hdc1" of volume group "LVM2" [y/n]? y pvcreate -- WARNING: forcing physical volume creation on "/dev/hdc1" of volume group "LVM2" pvcreate -- removing lvmtab entry pvcreate -- creating new physical volume pvcreate -- setting up physical volume for /dev/hdc1 with 195318207 sectors pvcreate -- writing physical volume data to disk "/dev/hdc1" pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/hdc1" successfully created pvcreate -- unlocking logical volume manager and hove no more access to the volume group. But it exists: vdr:~# dir /dev/LVM2/Media /dev/LVM2/Media -- Don't Panic _______________________________________________ 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/
