[linux-lvm] Re: vgcreate -- ERROR "lvm_tab_read(): size" inserting...

[Mark Phillips]

The other thing I thought of doing is sending the output of

  vgcreate -vd main_vg /dev/hda2

but first I would need to delete the main_vg that is already there, but I
can't because of the error:

# vgremove main_vg
vgremove -- ERROR: can't remove active volume group "main_vg"

I can't even display info:

# vgdisplay
vgdisplay -- "/etc/lvmtab.d/main_vg" doesn't exist
vgdisplay -- volume group "main_vg" not found

Any help on this would be most appreciated.  Even just to get rid of
main_vg so I can try again!

Thanks,

Mark.

On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Mark Phillips wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm using LVM for the first time and I got this error:
> 
> # vgcreate main_vg /dev/hda2
> vgcreate -- INFO: using default physical extent size 4 MB
> vgcreate -- INFO: maximum logical volume size is 255.99 Gigabyte
> vgcreate -- ERROR "lvm_tab_read(): size" inserting volume group "main_vg"
> into "/etc/lvmtab"
> 
> Can anyone tell me what's wrong?
> 
> All I've did before the above command was make /dev/hda2 into a 8e
> partition and then run:
> 
> # pvcreate /dev/hda2
> pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/hda2" successfully created
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark.
> 
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