LVM problems with RHEL AS4u3

[Nabeel Moidu]

On 3/31/06, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
>
> I'm running EL AS 4 Update 3 on a server that has two 3ware SATA RAID
> cards.  The total space on the drives is 4TB.  I'm trying to build a VG
> to combine the 2 arrays into one and I get this error when running
> lvcreate:
>
> root at blackrock ~]# lvcreate -l 715252 VolGroup0 -n LogVol0
> device-mapper: deps ioctl failed: Invalid argument
> _deps: task run failed for (253:1)
> Failed to add device (253:1) to dtree
> Failed to activate new LV.
>
> Does anyone know what the deal is and how to fix it?  Any help would be
> appreciated.


Have you created the physical volumes and volume groups first ?


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> Nabeel Moidu
> System Administrator
> OnMobile System Inc
> Bangalore, India
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