From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:13:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+czFiCGxCofOvgFid4PRhe42khjrmZhbMwNGH1P2xrEBsyzTw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120629212651.GC4982@crowfix.com>
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 5:26 PM, <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?
...I don't know, but I think you ought to burn in those drives before
you move all of your data onto them. One good way might be to create,
damage and rebuild a raid5 volume on them. They're at the high risk
period of their lifetime, and you don't want them to fail once you've
got data on them.
--
:wq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-30 1:34 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
2012-06-30 0:55 ` felix
2012-06-30 0:13 ` Michael Mol [this message]
2012-06-30 0:58 ` felix
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