<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1522" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV> <P align=left><SPAN class=783101919-09112005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=734223721-09112005>Hi,</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P> <P align=left><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=783101919-09112005><FONT><SPAN class=734223721-09112005><FONT size=2>I like to create the physical volume on my Fibre channel drive. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=783101919-09112005><SPAN class=734223721-09112005>I use fdisk /dev/sda to create one primary partition which is the whole size of disk and </SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2>run "pvcreate /dev/sda" then I got the following error message "</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=783101919-09112005><FONT><FONT size=2>/dev/sda: close failed: bad file descriptor<SPAN class=734223721-09112005>". Anybody knows what this means and how to solve this problem?</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=783101919-09112005><FONT><FONT size=2><SPAN class=734223721-09112005></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=783101919-09112005><FONT><FONT size=2><SPAN class=734223721-09112005>If I create two partitions /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 then I was able to run "pvcreate /dev/sda1" & "pvcreate /dev/sda2" ok.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=783101919-09112005><FONT><FONT size=2><SPAN class=734223721-09112005>Thanks!</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=783101919-09112005><FONT><FONT size=2><SPAN class=734223721-09112005>Tom Wang</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=783101919-09112005><FONT><FONT size=2><SPAN class=734223721-09112005></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT> </P> <P align=left><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=783101919-09112005><FONT><SPAN class=734223721-09112005></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P> <P align=left><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=783101919-09112005><FONT><SPAN class=734223721-09112005></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P></DIV></BODY></HTML>