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 1Skjzw-0000YR-64 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 22:49:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18E62E04BA; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 22:09:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crowfix.com (li35-165.members.linode.com [72.14.176.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 746D2E0776 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 22:07:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 4747 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2012 22:09:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO df.crowfix.com) (10.130.13.2) by 10.130.13.1 with SMTP; 29 Jun 2012 22:09:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 10061 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Jun 2012 22:05:11 -0000 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:05:11 -0700 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv Message-ID: <20120629220511.GD4982@crowfix.com> References: <20120629212651.GC4982@crowfix.com> <23257.1341007018@ccs.covici.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 In-Reply-To: <23257.1341007018@ccs.covici.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: f9468789-37bd-4e75-a7f5-5ef478b795af X-Archives-Hash: 525ee39cf418fd0a128c1d147cc30ef8 On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:56:58PM -0400, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > 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? > How come its hda? Perhaps this is the problem, it certainly should be > fixed anyway. Because it was set up that way 8 years ago. /dev/hda is the only IDE drive in the system, and has the MBR, so I can't make /dev/hda an LVM volume, it has to be /dev/hda1. I don't want to make some other drive the boot drive; they are LVM volumes also. And I also want an hd(0,x) for grub which doesn't change as I add new drives. Besides all that, why do you think it's a problem and how do you propose fixing it? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. 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