Re: problems with basic lvm commands on Debian
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Allan Wind wrote:
On 2005-08-25T23:10:05-0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
root@io:/dev/mapper# pvdisplay /dev/hda2
No physical volume label read from /dev/hda2
Failed to read physical volume "/dev/hda2"
How does the disk partition look like (fdisk)? Maybe there is garbage
data on hda2 that confuse pvcreate. If I recall correctly the lvm howto
has a suitable dd commend to take care of that. Check the lvm archive
to see if it is a known issue. You could collapse the partitions into
one pv and vg, then create two seperate lv's from it.
Well, I've reformatted since I had that problem.
I think the reason for these errors was (as someone pointed out on the lvm
mailing list) that I had mounted the partitions that I trying to put into
the volume group, and was running the system off filesystems mounted on
them. So it is not surprising that there were problems.
I should figure out how to set a reply to header in Pine.
Thanks for replying.
Faheem.
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