---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: zhihang wang <<a href="mailto:zhihang.wang@gmail.com">zhihang.wang@gmail.com</a>> Date: Jul 9, 2006 3:24 PM Subject: why can create the volumn group by vgcreate ? To: <a href="mailto:linux-lvm@redhat.com">linux-lvm@redhat.com</a> <div>The partition of my hard disk is as follows: Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 3825 30724281 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 3826 6938 25005172+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/hda3 7210 7296 698827+ 5 Extended /dev/hda4 6939 7209 2176807+ 83 Linux /dev/hda5 7210 7296 698796 82 Linux swap / Solaris Partition table entries are not in disk order I use the pvcreate /dev/hda2 command to create a phyisical volumn and use pvdisplay /dev/hda2 to display the physical volumn information sudo pvdisplay /dev/hda2 --- NEW Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/evms/hda2 VG Name PV Size 23.85 GB Allocatable NO PE Size (KByte) 0 Total PE 0 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 0 PV UUID kQba0Y-02Lk-VLB8-XhhV-GY1Z-RXEg-J8OXR9 But when I use the *sudo vgcreate test /dev/hda2* command to create a volumn group, an error occure. the error message is: No physical volume label read from /dev/hda2 /dev/hda2 not identified as an existing physical volume Unable to add physical volume '/dev/hda2' to volume group 'test'. Why can't find physical volume label from /dev/hda2? -- Best Regards </div> <div>zhihang wang </div> -- Best Regards zhihang wang