[linux-lvm] More LVM on RAID issues

[Andreas Dilger]

On Nov 15, 2001  23:10 +0100, Csuk, Ferenc wrote:
> Could someone tell me why I don´t receive the mails from the mailing list?
> Did I subsscribe wrongly? I just checked the internet and saw the answers
> for my questions.

I think you can check if you are subscribed at the URL:
http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm

> Anyway, I couldn´t complete the setup for LVM on top of RAID1. Though,
> suddenly pvcreate statement worked after deleting the volume groups, and the
> partitions, but now it creates physical volumes with wrong size. For example
> there is a partition with 16GB(/dev/md0), but pvcreate use only 50M. 

May still be a problem with reading DOS partition data from beginning of
the drive.  Did you "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mdX" for each device?  It
looks like you are getting the 50M boot partition data for your PV (this
may be corrupting that partition).  Are you sure your MD configuration
is correct, and that you are pvcreating the correct partition?

> Just to make the configuration clear we have 4 drives(sda, sdb, sdc, sdd)
> and we created primary partitions on sda for boot(50M), root(200M), and
> swap(700M), and another one for the rest(tmp, opt, var home 16GB). 

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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