Joep Blom wrote: > Hi, > I'm new to the list and new to the use of LVM. I have read the manuals > (which mainly are for LVM1) and am using LVM2. > I have one question. I just created a new volumegroup on an USB external > disk. > As the manual says I did : pvcreate /dev/sda but that did't work but > pvcreate /dev/sda1 worked. > I then did a vgcreate VG01, expecting to get one volume group for the > whole disk (250 GB). However, it created 2 volumegroups, one named > VolGroup00 of 46.6 GB and one VG01 (as expected) of 232.8 GB. The > problem is I have on another 2 disks already a VolGroup00 so I cannot do > an lvcreate VolGroup00 as this will try to access the earlier created one. > Can anybody explain why an unrequested volumegroup is created and how > can I solve this. > I cannot do a vgdelete VolGroup00 as this will destroy my current - > working - system. > Hope somebody knows the answers. It's fantastically unlikely that a single 'vgcreate VG0' command would create two VGs. What is much more likely is that VolGroup00 already existed and you just didn't notice it. That's the default name for a volume group created by a Fedora install BTW patrick _______________________________________________ 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/
