[linux-lvm] Problem with creation of dev entries on SL (RHEL) 4

[Luca Berra]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:50:01PM +0100, Stephen Childs wrote:
>When I create a new LVM volume on Scientific Linux 4 (RHEL4-compatible), a 
>new entry isn't created in /dev, meaning that I can't access the volume 
>although it exists.
>
>Creation succeeds:
>
>[root at tg23 mapper]# /usr/sbin//lvcreate -s '-L1024M' -n 
>'/dev/xenvg/gridmon_gridmon023__1147860249' /dev/xenvg/gridmon
>   Logical volume "gridmon_gridmon023__1147860249" created
>
>Mount fails:
....
>Any ideas?
>
Weird, but your command line is also weird could you try without
prefixing the vg name to -the -n parameter?

lvcreate -s -L1024M -n gridmon_gridmon023__1147860249 /dev/xenvg/gridmon

else look into the log section of /etc/lvm.conf and provide some logs.

L.

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