On Mon, Feb 06, 2006, Gunther Clasen wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following problem: I have a VG which sits on two partitions. > This VG has been created with SuSE 7.2, that is version 1 of LVM. (I > don't know exactly which one.) I wish to extend that VG and I have tried > to do that from SuSE 9.2, which runs > LVM version: 2.00.25 (2004-09-29) > Library version: 1.00.19-ioctl (2004-07-03) > Driver version: 4.1.0 > > The type of the partition is set to Linux LVM, like the others, but it > does not work. I get this error: > > # pvcreate -vv /dev/hdg9 > Setting global/locking_type to 1 > Setting global/locking_dir to /var/lock/lvm > File-based locking enabled. > Locking /var/lock/lvm/P_orphans WB > Getting size of /dev/hdg9 > metadata/pvmetadatasize not found in config: defaulting to 255 > metadata/pvmetadatacopies not found in config: defaulting to 1 > /dev/hdg9: Couldn't find device. Check your filters? > Unlocking /var/lock/lvm/P_orphans > > I can't see that the filters are a problem. The entry in > /etc/lvm/lvm.conf is: > filter = [ "r|/dev/.*/by-path/.*|", "r|/dev/.*/by-id/.*|", "a/.*/" ] > > I understand now that I should use -M1 to add this PV to an old V1 VG, > but that is not the problem. I still get the same error. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Gunther I have investigated this a bit further. I have booted SuSE 9.0 and done a pvcreate /dev/hdg9 from there. It worked fine. I have then added this PV to VG vg7, which worked fine, too. When I then boot SuSE 9.2 again, I get the following in /var/log/boot.msg: <notice>run boot scripts (boot.lvm) Scanning for LVM volume groups... Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... 1 PV(s) found for VG vg1: expected 2 Volume group "vg1" not found Found volume group "vg0" using metadata type lvm1 2 PV(s) found for VG vg7: expected 3 Volume group "vg7" not found Found volume group "vg4" using metadata type lvm1 Activating LVM volume groups... 1 PV(s) found for VG vg1: expected 2 Unable to find volume group "vg1" 11 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg0" now active 2 PV(s) found for VG vg7: expected 3 Unable to find volume group "vg7" VG vg1 is dead. I have no clue why it still finds traces of it on the system. VG vg0 and vg4 are up and running. The problem is vg7, to which I have just added /dev/hdg9. Why can't lvm find it??? /dev/hdg9 has previously been used as part of an md device (soft raid). Is this a bug in lvm? Or is my harddisk dying? Or what could it be? I hope I haven't actually killed my vg7 yet... (All I did was adding the PV, no data on it yet.) Gunther _______________________________________________ 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/
