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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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  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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