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 1SkimX-00082e-PF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:31:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 238B0E05E8; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:30:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crowfix.com (li35-165.members.linode.com [72.14.176.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAACEE05FE for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:29:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 3183 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2012 21:31:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO df.crowfix.com) (10.130.13.2) by 10.130.13.1 with SMTP; 29 Jun 2012 21:31:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 1290 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Jun 2012 21:26:51 -0000 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:26:51 -0700 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv Message-ID: <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-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 797d5c7b-c055-46da-a06e-1f9d04be8350 X-Archives-Hash: e59846c0cf4864fab9f27054c96050b9 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? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o