[linux-lvm] lvm and software raid1

[Ramin Motakef]

Ramin Motakef <ramin at motakef.de> writes:

> Hi!
> This is my first contact with LVM, so maybe i am doing something
> wrong, however this are my problems:
> 
> I try to install LVM on /dev/md1:
> 
> # cat /proc/mdstat 
> md1 : active raid1 sdb7[1] sda7[0]
>       15411072 blocks [2/2] [UU]
> 
> Kernel is vanilla 2.4.5, distribution debian sid of today.
> 
> md1 is about 15GB, but when i run pvcreate on it, it uses only 1.8 GB:
> 
> # pvcreate -ff /dev/md1
> pvcreate -- WARNING: forcing physical volume creation on "/dev/md1"
> pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/md1" successfully created
> 
> # pvdisplay /dev/md1
> pvdisplay -- "/dev/md1" is a new physical volume of 1.86 GB
> 
> Any hints?
> 
> Thanks, Ramin
> 

As normal i found the solution 5 minutes after posting :-(.

I had the wrong debian package (lvw-common and lvm10 instead of lvm)
installed.
Sorry for the noise,
Ramin