<html> <head> </head> <body> Hi i couldn't change the partition's id of the RAID but i mannaged it to create the VG, LV and to format the LV but when i try to mount the the LV mount segfaults and every try to do anything with the LV finish witth a sleep i mean when i try to mount anything ( a partition, a CD or a LV) after the segfault of the first ' mount -t xfs /dev/myData/Music /mnt/music ' mount goes to sleep and do not do anything vgdisplay says that the volume is activ lvremove says that the volume is open and can not be removed do you have an idea wthat is the problem and what can i try the LV ( lvcreate -i3 -I4 -L26G -nMusic ) the VG -> myData /dev/hdh10 /dev/md6 /dev/md7 /dev/hdh10 normal partition 14G /dev/md6 -> linear software RAID 14G /dev/hde6 /dev/hde12 /dev/md7 -> linear software RAID 14G /dev/hdg1 /dev/hdg5 /dev/hdg6 /dev/hdg12 the reason: after trying BeOS, FreeBSD and useing windows , i was trying to switch complete to linux without having to repartiton all the drives( i have tree ) and lose about 30G of Data + and a new instalation ( the current Data and instalation is over a software RAID-0 other a striped LV's or to back up 30 Gigs of Data AJ Lewis wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:20010830083546.A20989@sistina.com"> <pre wrap="">On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 03:26:38PM +0200, svetljo wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi i saw your postings on the lvm-board and i was woundering whether you can help me can you plese tell me how can i change the type of 'partition' on md-device (softweare Linear RAID ) i can not make it with fdisk on md-device i have 3 disks with a lot of partitions and i wanted to build striped LV's on a new VG i've created the VG ( /dev/md5 /dev/md6 /dev/hdh10 ) but when i try to create LV's it returns to me that not all PV's are online ( md5 ) and /proc/mdstat tells me that everything is ok : md5 ( /dev/hde6 /dev/hde12 linear) and md6 (/dev/hdg1 /dev/hdg2 /dev/hdg8 linear) are online but they are marked as ext2 partitions can you please help me </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I'm sorry. I don't personally have any experience using md. I suggest you post this to linux-lvm. There should be people there that have done what you're proposing. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">linux-2.4.9-xfs-cvs with LVM 1.0.1rc1 </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Regards, </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>