Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

felix@×××××××.com wrote:

> Got my two 4TB drives installed.  Now I need to get stuff off /dev/hda
> so I can turn it into an LVM volumne.  So I copied everything there to
> the the 7.3TB LVM filesystem, then tried to create a new pv on
> /dev/hda1.  No joy.  I get
>
>     Device /dev/hda1 not found (or ignored by filtering).
>
> /dev/hda has only /dev/hda1 which takes all the space.  The partition
> type is 8e, Linux LVM.  It's not mounted.  I tried pvcreate -f.  I
> tried dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 count=1.  What is pvcreate really
> complaining about?
How come its hda?  Perhaps this is the problem, it certainly should be
fixed anyway.

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