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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SklDs-0005IW-1Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:07:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3411EE0810; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:07:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nschwmtas05p.mx.bigpond.com (nschwmtas05p.mx.bigpond.com [61.9.189.149]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01924E07B9 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:05:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nschwcmgw05p ([61.9.190.165]) by nschwmtas05p.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20120630000541.HVHB2821.nschwmtas05p.mx.bigpond.com@nschwcmgw05p> for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:05:41 +0000 Received: from bluering.localnet ([58.172.74.194]) by nschwcmgw05p with BigPond Outbound id UQ5g1j0084BX4uJ01Q5g45; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:05:41 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=D4zF24tj c=1 sm=1 a=4fYCdBx5G8+LorqvK9YRNw==:17 a=Ue2bkAR4glIA:10 a=oAaJzBvlU-IA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=56PiF0goAAAA:8 a=vPtwz2tBAAAA:8 a=LXL8el5rAAAA:8 a=3QNgLUZELC1m3mpkTz4A:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=rpZbK-ZXKSkA:10 a=J5XRbftVNpkA:10 a=4fYCdBx5G8+LorqvK9YRNw==:117 From: Paul Colquhoun To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:05:40 +1000 Message-ID: <1828873.sg3DGzgEYc@bluering> User-Agent: KMail/4.8.4 (Linux/3.4.3-gentoo; KDE/4.8.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20120629212651.GC4982@crowfix.com> References: <20120629212651.GC4982@crowfix.com> 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: 1ed28086-8d9f-4b8f-9471-82104984c4e8 X-Archives-Hash: 51539cc74f7145307dd5e809226fab43 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? -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro