Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

felix@crowfix.com wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:56:58PM -0400, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > 
> > felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> > 
> > > Got my two 4TB drives installed.  Now I need to get stuff off /dev/hda
> > > so I can turn it into an LVM volumne.  So I copied everything there to
> > > the the 7.3TB LVM filesystem, then tried to create a new pv on
> > > /dev/hda1.  No joy.  I get
> > > 
> > >     Device /dev/hda1 not found (or ignored by filtering).
> > > 
> > > /dev/hda has only /dev/hda1 which takes all the space.  The partition
> > > type is 8e, Linux LVM.  It's not mounted.  I tried pvcreate -f.  I
> > > tried dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 count=1.  What is pvcreate really
> > > complaining about?
> > How come its hda?  Perhaps this is the problem, it certainly should be
> > fixed anyway.
> 
> Because it was set up that way 8 years ago.  /dev/hda is the only IDE
> drive in the system, and has the MBR, so I can't make /dev/hda an LVM
> volume, it has to be /dev/hda1.  I don't want to make some other drive
> the boot drive; they are LVM volumes also.  And I also want an hd(0,x)
> for grub which doesn't change as I add new drives.
> 
> Besides all that, why do you think it's a problem and how do you
> propose fixing it?
If they are serial ata drives, I thought newer kernels would use
/dev/sda  etc.  Is this really a ide drive?  Or do you have the BIOS
pretend they are?

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