On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:56:22AM -0800, Richard Mollel wrote:
Just before i sent this out...i saw this thread:: https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2005-May/msg00032.html And that was exactly my problem!! Not sure why!! I have now been able to perform:: losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/sdb losetup /dev/loop1 /dev/sdc losetup /dev/loop2 /dev/sdd
can you please clarify if you are really using whole disks or did you by chance partition the devices. the message you cite was the fix for someone that did partition the disk after creating the PVs and filling LVM with data. if the device holds a partition table lvm commands will ignore the whole disk and try to find an LVM label on the partition. the loosetup trick will fool lvm tools (loop device are not partitionable)
and, performed : vgchange -a y (it complained of duplicate uuid's, recreated on sdb1,sdc1 and sdd1 since pvcreate was complaining of /dev/sdb,sdc & sdd not found!)
pvcreate? did you pvcreate? on the partition?
I have been able to mount my reiserfs, so i can continue with migration. Issue which i have to take up with Mandriva guys is why the failure all of a sudden? and do i need to be performing losetup everytime? My original configuration had used whole disks...
i did not see anything related to that on mandriva bugzilla, but in any case if the issue is that the whole device was partitioned after lvm creation there is not much i can do about it. L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / 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/