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From: felix@×××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 22:49:08
Message-Id: 20120629220511.GD4982@crowfix.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv by covici@ccs.covici.com
1 On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:56:58PM -0400, covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
2 >
3 > felix@×××××××.com wrote:
4 >
5 > > Got my two 4TB drives installed. Now I need to get stuff off /dev/hda
6 > > so I can turn it into an LVM volumne. So I copied everything there to
7 > > the the 7.3TB LVM filesystem, then tried to create a new pv on
8 > > /dev/hda1. No joy. I get
9 > >
10 > > Device /dev/hda1 not found (or ignored by filtering).
11 > >
12 > > /dev/hda has only /dev/hda1 which takes all the space. The partition
13 > > type is 8e, Linux LVM. It's not mounted. I tried pvcreate -f. I
14 > > tried dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 count=1. What is pvcreate really
15 > > complaining about?
16 > How come its hda? Perhaps this is the problem, it certainly should be
17 > fixed anyway.
18
19 Because it was set up that way 8 years ago. /dev/hda is the only IDE
20 drive in the system, and has the MBR, so I can't make /dev/hda an LVM
21 volume, it has to be /dev/hda1. I don't want to make some other drive
22 the boot drive; they are LVM volumes also. And I also want an hd(0,x)
23 for grub which doesn't change as I add new drives.
24
25 Besides all that, why do you think it's a problem and how do you
26 propose fixing it?
27
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Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv covici@××××××××××.com
[gentoo-user] Re: pvcreate won't create pv walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>