[linux-lvm] vgcreate not working
Heinz J . Mauelshagen
mauelshagen at sistina.com
Mon Mar 11 09:31:02 UTC 2002
Vincent,
in case you've got devfs, please retry with the long devfs path names.
Regards,
Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 03:04:55PM +0000, Vincent AE Scott wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> i have a problem with some newly partioned up disks, i've created two
> LVM partions on two different disks. upon executing the following
> commands, vgcreate fails:
>
> [root at box guest]# pvcreate /dev/hde2
> pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/hde2" successfully created
>
> [root at box guest]# pvcreate /dev/hdg2
> pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/hdg2" successfully created
>
> [root at box guest]# vgcreate vg /dev/hde2 /dev/hdg2
> vgcreate -- no valid physical volumes in command line
>
>
> here's a snipit from the tail end of vgcreate -d:
>
> <1> pv_read_all_pv -- calling stat with "/dev/loop/7"
> <22> pv_read -- CALLED with /dev/loop/7
> <333> pv_check_name -- CALLED with "/dev/loop/7"
> <4444> lvm_check_chars -- CALLED with name: "/dev/loop/7"
> <4444> lvm_check_chars -- LEAVING with ret: 0
> <333> pv_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: 0
> <22> pv_read -- going to read /dev/loop/7
> <22> pv_read -- LEAVING with ret: -282
> <1> pv_read_all_pv -- pv_read returned: -282
> <1> pv_read_all_pv -- avoiding multiple entries in case of MD; np: 2
> <1> pv_read_all_pv -- LEAVING with ret: 0
> <1> pv_check_name -- CALLED with "/dev/hde2"
> <22> lvm_check_chars -- CALLED with name: "/dev/hde2"
> <22> lvm_check_chars -- LEAVING with ret: 0
> <1> pv_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: 0
> <1> pv_check_name -- CALLED with "/dev/hdg2"
> <22> lvm_check_chars -- CALLED with name: "/dev/hdg2"
> <22> lvm_check_chars -- LEAVING with ret: 0
> <1> pv_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: 0
> vgcreate -- no valid physical volumes in command line
>
>
>
> Now, the only thing i can think of, is this disk *used* to have an LVM
> on it, (vg+lv) but i have since removed it from the disk, in favour of
> this new attempt. i cant see how it could possibly be a problem, but
> maybe there's something lurking in the FS.
>
>
> Does anyone have any dieas whats wrong?
> im running lvm 1.0.3 on 2.4.18
>
>
>
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