Joep Blom schrieb: > Patrick Caulfield wrote: > >> 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. >>> >>> >> >> >> 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/ >> >> >> > Patrick, > Thanks for the quick reply. However, this is external USB disk (250Gb > and I just added it to the system as a backup disk. FC5 was running and > before I did anything the disk was formatted as a FAT32 disk I then did > a pvcreate. When I checked the disk was empty (as was expected). The > vgcreate did the strange thing, which is a problem as I cant remove this > VolGroup00 as there exists one on the other (2) disks and when I asses > VolGroup00 it rightly goes to the original VolGroup00, which I cannot > delete. > I think the only solution is fdisk and see if it will free the whole > disk. But any other ideas? > Joep Hi Joep, well, what Patrick meant is, that your system (forget that USB drive in this moment) already has a VG called VolGroup00 on your internal disk. The modern FC distros use it as default (i think, i'm using SuSE ;-) ). Before messing up more using fdisk, just provide us with the output of a vgdisplay -a ;-) get an impression of the 'disaster' :-). Btw. the volume group your wanted to create has the name VG0, not VolGroup00 ;-) .. Ciao Klaus -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen / best regards Klaus Strebel, Dipl.-Inform. (FH), mailto:klaus.strebel@gmx.net /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ _______________________________________________ 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/
