[linux-lvm] RE: Problem adding pv to vg
Patrick Caulfield
caulfield at sistina.com
Wed May 16 14:03:32 UTC 2001
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:01:44AM -0600, fox at theendoftime.net wrote:
> Hi;
>
> Turns out a reboot fixed this problem. I didn't think to run with debug,
> but if this occurs again, I will do that.
In that case it could have been the partition table update. Did you run fdisk
just before the pvcreate ?
If you get the message "device is busy" when leaving fdisk then a reboot is
usually needed to get the kernel to re-read the new partition table.
patrick
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