From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SkmGB-0006il-D9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 01:14:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28C3BE0773; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 01:04:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from d-out-001.smtp25.com (unknown [67.228.158.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11F75E07E2 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 01:02:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (pool-96-247-198-116.clppva.fios.verizon.net [96.247.198.116]) by d-out-001.smtp25.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q5U12ggv026069 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:02:43 -0400 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q5U12gBf017930 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:02:42 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv In-reply-to: <20120629220511.GD4982@crowfix.com> References: <20120629212651.GC4982@crowfix.com> <23257.1341007018@ccs.covici.com> <20120629220511.GD4982@crowfix.com> Comments: In-reply-to felix@crowfix.com message dated "Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:05:11 -0700." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.2; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 23.4.2 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:02:42 -0400 Message-ID: <17929.1341018162@ccs.covici.com> From: covici@ccs.covici.com X-SpamH-OriginatingIP: 96.247.198.116 X-SpamH-Filter: d-out-001.smtp25.com-q5U12ggv026069 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 190edec0-39e9-43ec-922f-08f36743ef62 X-Archives-Hash: 67a1cc12238890de64f3add191d6f2c2 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? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com