LVM - pvcreate error

[Dougie Nisbet <dougie@tbird2.homelan>]

I tried LVM today, but didn't get very far. I've used fdisk to set the 
partition type, and tried to pvcreate it. But I get an i/o error. What have I 
done wrong? This is on an up to date woody system.

Dougie

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root@guestw:~# fdisk -l .dev.hdc1
root@guestw:~# fdisk -l /dev/hdc

Disk /dev/hdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3737 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1             1      3737  30017452   8e  Linux LVM
root@guestw:~# 
root@guestw:~# pvcreate /dev/hdc1
pvcreate -- invalid i/o protocol version

root@guestw:~# 
root@guestw:~# pvdisplay /dev/hdc1
pvdisplay -- invalid i/o protocol version

root@guestw:~# uname -a
Linux guestw 2.4.16 #1 Fri Jan 11 10:31:57 GMT 2002 i686 unknown
root@guestw:~#