[linux-lvm] vg works fine under FC3, but not FC4

Alasdair G Kergon agk at redhat.com
Tue Aug 16 19:04:23 UTC 2005


On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:26:00AM -0700, john_gore at yahoo.com wrote:
> My vg mounts fine under fc3, but when i installed fc4 on a new drive, I cant bring in the vg. I get errors for hdc like "Couldn't find device with uuid..." and PV unknown device (from pvscan). 
  
Check for a bogus partition table.

If a device (e.g. /dev/hdd) is partitioned, you can't use /dev/hdd as the PV
but have to use one of its partitions instead e.g. /dev/hdd1.
If something like this happened, you need to remove the partition table.

Alasdair
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