[ale] Need help with lvm

[Greg Freemyer]

Looks right.

Are you getting any errors in dmesg?

FYI: Userland tools and kernels have to be in sync for lvm to work
right, so if you upgraded your kernel, etc. you may have a
compatibility issue.

Greg

On 1/30/07, Jim <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
> I know this is suppose to be simple but I don't see what I'm doing wrong.
>
> root at umuntu:~# pvcreate /dev/hda9
>   Physical volume "/dev/hda9" successfully created
> root at umuntu:~# pvdisplay /dev/hda9
>   --- NEW Physical volume ---
>   PV Name               /dev/evms/hda9
>   VG Name
>   PV Size               75.21 GB
>   Allocatable           NO
>   PE Size (KByte)       0
>   Total PE              0
>   Free PE               0
>   Allocated PE          0
>   PV UUID               mRAYM0-HgVU-gmfR-31IZ-U4m0-U2Pb-XhhGSw
>
> root at umuntu:~# vgcreate -s 32M VolGroup09 /dev/hda9
>   No physical volume label read from /dev/hda9
>   /dev/hda9 not identified as an existing physical volume
>   Unable to add physical volume '/dev/hda9' to volume group 'VolGroup09'.
> root at umuntu:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *           1        1275    10241406    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda2            1276        2677    11261565   83  Linux
> /dev/hda3            2678        2817     1124550   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/hda4            2818       24321   172730880    5  Extended
> /dev/hda5            2818        7682    39078081   83  Linux
> /dev/hda6            7683       13153    43945776   83  Linux
> /dev/hda7           13154       13166      104391   83  Linux
> /dev/hda8           13167       14503    10739421   8e  Linux LVM
> /dev/hda9           14504       24321    78863053+  8e  Linux LVM
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century