[linux-lvm] lvcreate complains and fails

[Alasdair G Kergon]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 04:23:52PM +0000, arajendr at cse.uta.edu wrote:
> tells me dev mapper is in the kernel.
 
> Yet when I run lvcreate it gives me an error saying no /dev/mapper/control.
There's a script to create it correctly, though it sounds like you did 
the right thing.

> One other error it gives me is Incompatible libdevmapper 1.00.17-ioctl, and
> kernel driver.
What does 'lvm version' report?
Should be 3 versions: If it doesn't give the dm kernel driver version, 
look in the kernel message log for it.
 
Alasdair
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