[linux-lvm] lvm2 problems adding a new physical volume

[Luca Berra]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 07:00:57AM -0500, Darrel Wages Jr. wrote:
>On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 04:42 +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 09:44:03AM -0500, Darrel Wages Jr. wrote:
>> > I try to extend vg darrel with vgextend but it failed. So I ran
>> 
>> How does it fail?  What error?
>> 
>> Alasdair
>
>
>It doesn't really give me an error It just won't let me add the new
>drive to any volume groups and pvdisplay 
>always say that the new drive is not allocatable even after a pvchange -
>x y /dev/hdd.
you should do vgextend /dev/your_vg_name /dev/hdd

L.

-- 
Luca Berra -- bluca at comedia.it
        Communication Media & Services S.r.l.
 /"\
 \ /     ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN
  X        AGAINST HTML MAIL
 / \