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On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 5:26 PM, <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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...I don't know, but I think you ought to burn in those drives before |
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you move all of your data onto them. One good way might be to create, |
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damage and rebuild a raid5 volume on them. They're at the high risk |
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period of their lifetime, and you don't want them to fail once you've |
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got data on them. |
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:wq |
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