[linux-lvm] LVM on large drives

[Petro]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:49:02PM -0600, David Orman wrote:
> David Orman
> Network Administrator
> ISU Center for NDE
> Are there Issue on LVM and very large drives?
 
> Im trying to play with it on a Maxtor 160G IDE and cant hardly get
> started..

    I've got it running on several 300G+ RAID (both hardware and
    software raid volumes. 

 
> [root at habenero /root]# pvcreate /dev/hdc1
> pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/hdc1" successfully created
> [root at habenero /root]# vgcreate test /dev/hdc1
> vgcreate -- ERROR "pv_read(): PV identifier invalid" reading physical
> volumes

    Um. 

    I tend to do these on raw devices--if you're going to use the whole
    drive, try that. 

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