On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 06:34:42PM +0000, Abhilash Nag wrote: > I am trying to create LVM on my drives, but pvcreate -vvv throws up an error message saying: fails with an error message:/dev/hd*: Skipping: Unrecognised LVM device type 253. > I am trying to debug if this is a device driver problem or if LVM does not recognize the entry of a previously unknown device. Obtain the following: # lvm version # lvm dumpconfig devices # cat /proc/devices 253 in the block section of /proc/devices points to a word that should be either built in or appearing in the dumpconfig output. Alasdair _______________________________________________ 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/