On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 05:26:00PM -0500, f-lvm@media.mit.edu wrote: > "Device /dev/hdd not found." The disk is surely online: I can > I would have -expected- pvcreate to complain about a partition table > existing The currrent internal structure of LVM2 makes that difficult. Add -vvvv to commands for more information like that. Invalid devices are filtered out at a low level in the libraries so tools such as 'pvcreate' never see them. If your disk has a partition table, then LVM2 insists you use those partitions to reduce the risk of accidents. > (at which point I would have zeroed it and tried again) Did you try that? (And then you might need to run 'vgscan'.) 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/
