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On 06/29/2012 03:05 PM, felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:56:58PM -0400, covici@××××××××××.com wrote: |
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>> felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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>>> Got my two 4TB drives installed. Now I need to get stuff off /dev/hda |
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>>> so I can turn it into an LVM volumne. So I copied everything there to |
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>>> the the 7.3TB LVM filesystem, then tried to create a new pv on |
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>>> /dev/hda1. No joy. I get |
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>>> Device /dev/hda1 not found (or ignored by filtering). |
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>>> /dev/hda has only /dev/hda1 which takes all the space. The partition |
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>>> type is 8e, Linux LVM. It's not mounted. I tried pvcreate -f. I |
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>>> tried dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 count=1. What is pvcreate really |
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>>> complaining about? |
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>> How come its hda? Perhaps this is the problem, it certainly should be |
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>> fixed anyway. |
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> Because it was set up that way 8 years ago. /dev/hda is the only IDE |
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> drive in the system, and has the MBR, so I can't make /dev/hda an LVM |
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> volume, it has to be /dev/hda1. I don't want to make some other drive |
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> the boot drive; they are LVM volumes also. And I also want an hd(0,x) |
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> for grub which doesn't change as I add new drives. |
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> Besides all that, why do you think it's a problem and how do you |
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> propose fixing it? |
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I can't speak for John, obviously, but /dev/hdxx is typical for the |
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deprecated kernel drivers. The newer drivers use /dev/sdxx |