From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FCQQW-00052e-C1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:03:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1O02EvE002922; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:02:14 GMT Received: from ender.volumehost.net (adsl-69-154-123-202.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1NNvHvv008496 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:57:18 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F0B9D300 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:57:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ender.volumehost.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ender.volumehost.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13113-06 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:57:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from monster (ip70-178-175-2.ks.ks.cox.net [70.178.175.2]) (using SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA108D301 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:57:15 +0000 (UTC) From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:57:15 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <8D0AE50C52974F4AA9971F5C25A0345938A738@murph.madison.local> In-Reply-To: <8D0AE50C52974F4AA9971F5C25A0345938A738@murph.madison.local> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602231757.15195.bss03@volumehost.com> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at volumehost.net X-Archives-Salt: dc014582-6b12-418a-9536-0e182b0d15f2 X-Archives-Hash: 5dbded23ac4db0e23f2c661d4951c254 On Thursday 23 February 2006 17:29, "CR Little" wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question': > Apparently when I created my first drive pv. I missed something as well > > I have /dev/sda8-14 which are not set allocatable > I ran pvchange and got the following results. > pvchange -x y /dev/sda8 /dev/sda9 /dev/sda10 /dev/sda11 /dev/sda12 > /dev/sda13 /dev/sda14 > Allocatability not supported by orphan lvm2 format PV /dev/sda8 > Allocatability not supported by orphan lvm2 format PV /dev/sda9 > Allocatability not supported by orphan lvm2 format PV /dev/sda10 > Allocatability not supported by orphan lvm2 format PV /dev/sda11 > Allocatability not supported by orphan lvm2 format PV /dev/sda12 > Allocatability not supported by orphan lvm2 format PV /dev/sda13 > Allocatability not supported by orphan lvm2 format PV /dev/sda14 > 0 physical volumes changed / 7 physical volumes not changed > > Any help in getting these partitions to allocate would help. It's about > 130Gigs of space. They are orphans, meaning not in a volume group, so they can't be allocatable. (Space is always allocated out of a volume group.) You probably want to vgextend vg /dev/sda[89] /dev/sda1[0-4] before your pvchange command. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. bss03@volumehost.com ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list