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 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SkmZY-00056F-Td for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 01:34:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB7FBE0761; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:15:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 518A3E07DF for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:13:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjk13 with SMTP id jk13so3860180bkc.40 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:13:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=J2uJjX4pr76ljhaHXTUVzCkCsHF6Tp778Laxpnk1/Ek=; b=Q4YCHFfCD9VsuRF+Q4XSP2MXFwZnSX6Y+vjoZbauE6f4X5oWkAp/e9+hCveBf2Vdy9 Z7N/bhUo2PKNSfei0lzoLiS/D1eLxp0MhHi3hvIA48bLkhme++E4sxoTH0jAkAIHZFQY Bdx2XQDUXbs+DN4a6YUOf3QkvXU9DQEhFbZ/MGRcTV5YOC3EysqizoTEyQMN2r3q8GjA J5p/Ccq+NcIaRh72sSnLpaMX61mmdOXemgjV/TgDenMFNs217qUxX6lrHHjPzAMon9ed 317KYbE9oNnjUcXysFoLkhZvZ/heIp87tMQrR5bAxJTBB1MAMamPXcHa2w5DgZcw3z8w sxGA== 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 Received: by 10.204.129.87 with SMTP id n23mr2136006bks.19.1341015234380; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.205.83.139 with HTTP; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:13:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120629212651.GC4982@crowfix.com> References: <20120629212651.GC4982@crowfix.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:13:54 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 1a480221-3d7a-47df-a53c-ad00d7bd67a3 X-Archives-Hash: 71d7d3454c8895646879c86cf08b5c74 On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 5:26 PM, wrote: > Got my two 4TB drives installed. =C2=A0Now I need to get stuff off /dev/h= da > so I can turn it into an LVM volumne. =C2=A0So I copied everything there = to > the the 7.3TB LVM filesystem, then tried to create a new pv on > /dev/hda1. =C2=A0No joy. =C2=A0I get > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0Device /dev/hda1 not found (or ignored by filtering). > > /dev/hda has only /dev/hda1 which takes all the space. =C2=A0The partitio= n > type is 8e, Linux LVM. =C2=A0It's not mounted. =C2=A0I tried pvcreate -f.= =C2=A0I > tried dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/hda1 count=3D1. =C2=A0What 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. --=20 :wq