Hi Malcolm, Quoting Malcolm Scott: > When I run pvcreate on a partition, it seems the PV label is successfully > written to the partition, but vgcreate cannot then read this label in order > to incorporate this new PV into a new VG. > > mas90@neptune ~ $ sudo pvcreate /dev/hda6 > Physical volume "/dev/hda6" successfully created > > mas90@neptune ~ $ sudo vgcreate neptune_vg /dev/hda6 > No physical volume label read from /dev/hda6 > /dev/hda6 not identified as an existing physical volume > Unable to add physical volume '/dev/hda6' to volume group 'neptune_vg'. > > What could cause this? > > The system is running Ubuntu Edgy, with the following versions: i assume that you have the standard installation. Having this, you have evms installed. So will need to use /dev/evms/hdax. Please check this. Best regards, Micha Holzmann -- Wie sagen Informatiker zu Dauerregen? "Caps Lock", Shift die ganze Zeit _______________________________________________ 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/
