On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 07:50:04PM -0800, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > Hello folks, > > I'm trying to configure a system with 2 12 port 3ware 9550SX SATA RAID > cards to join the two physical volumes exported by the cards into a > single logical volume. There are 24x400GB drives, so the total is just > above 8TB. I did pretty much the same thing on a Caos Linux system with two twelve-port 3ware 9000 SATA raid and twenty-four 250 GB disks, creating one big 6.6T file system. No problems to report from here. You did make GPT labels on the two SCSI devices, didn't you? David S. > > After running the following commands: > > pvcreate --metadatasize 1024 /dev/sdb1 > pvcreate --metadatasize 1024 /dev/sdc1 > vgcreate -s 128M vg0 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 > lvcreate -n lv0 -L8T vg0 > > The lvcreate command gobbles up CPU and memory as would be expected, > however, I get the following error message: > > device-mapper device too small for target: /dev/sdb1 > device mapper ioctl cmd 9 failed: Invalid argument. > could not load device vg0-lv0 > failed to activate new LV > > Am I doing something incorrectly? I've tried with both Fedora Core 3 > and Fedora Core 4. Any pointers on how I should continue with this > would be greatly appreciated. > > Kind regards, > > Devon H. O'Dell > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
