On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:57:04AM +0200, Luca Berra wrote: > On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:51:35PM -0700, Prakash Achuthan wrote: > >I have a software RAID volume (of four 160 GB harddisk) which is to be > >added to a separate volume group. Now, when I do a pvcreate (pvcreate > >/dev/md3), it fails saying "Invalid phyiscal volume". All the disks in > >the RAID volume have their partition type set to "linux auto detect". > >One of the mails in a mailing list says that the partition type of the > >md0 should be "8e". > > nope, you cant' change the partition type and you don't need to, > the problem lies somewhere else. > lvm1 is very picky (serverely broken) about device file names, > do a lvmdiskscan and or cat /proc/partitions and check which device name > you find. Well, that's why device names are handled better in LVM2. Want to give it a try ? ;) > if you have devfs compiled in the kernel and not mounted lvm user tools > will NOT work. > > i cc-ed lvm list which is a better place to ask elp on lvm... > regards, > 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@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html