>>>>> "jam" == John A Martin >>>>> "Re: Trouble LVM: pvcreate to usb disk managed by udev" >>>>> Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:57:31 -0500 >>>>> "Andy" == Andy Hawkins >>>>> "Re: Trouble LVM: pvcreate to usb disk managed by udev" >>>>> Wed, 4 Jan 2006 22:06:56 +0000 (UTC) Andy> Hi, In article <[🔎] 87r77nk7nn.fsf@athene.jamux.com>, Andy> John A. Martin<jam@jamux.com> wrote: >>> As root: >>> >>> ,----[ pvcreate /dev/sdc ] >>> Device /dev/sdc not found. >>> `---- Andy> Doesn't this need to be done on a partition, rather than the Andy> disk itself? Indeed! Thank you very much. jam> ,----[ Excerpt: man PVCREATE ] DESCRIPTION jam> pvcreate initializes PhysicalVolume for later use by jam> the Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Each PhysicalVolume jam> can be a disk partition, whole disk, meta device, or jam> loopback file. jam> `---- jam> ,----[ Excerpt: LVM-HOWTO ] 11.1. Initializing disks or disk jam> partitions [[ Saying the same thing ]] jam> `---- It seems that the following just work. # pvcreate /dev/sdc1 # vgcreate vg1 /dev/sdc1 # lvcreate -l 1 -n test vg1 # mkfs.ext3 -L test /dev/vg1/test jam> Maybe I misunderstand the above? I still don't understand what the man page and HOWTO say about the whole disk. jam
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