From: Paul Colquhoun <paulcol@andor.dropbear.id.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:05:40 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1828873.sg3DGzgEYc@bluering> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120629212651.GC4982@crowfix.com>
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:26:51 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?
What active 'filter = ' lines do you currently have in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf?
Does it have something like 'r|/dev/hd.*' in it to hide all the IDE devices
from LVM?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-30 0:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-29 21:26 [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv felix
2012-06-29 21:56 ` covici
2012-06-29 22:05 ` felix
2012-06-30 1:02 ` covici
2012-06-30 1:57 ` felix
2012-06-30 1:26 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-06-30 20:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2012-06-30 0:05 ` Paul Colquhoun [this message]
2012-06-30 0:55 ` felix
2012-06-30 0:13 ` Michael Mol
2012-06-30 0:58 ` felix
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