[linux-lvm] Can't pvcreate second partition...

[Diehl, Jeffrey]

Hi all.

I'm new to LVM, but think I understad it, at least... <grin>

Anyway, I'm trying to setup the first VG but can't seem to build my PV's.
The transcript of what I did is at the bottom of this message.

As you can see, I was able to do pvcreate on /dev/sdc2, but not on
/dev/sdc3.  These partitions are on a hardware raid5.

Am I missing something?

Thanx,
Mike Diehl,
Network Monitoring Tool Devl.
284-3137
jdiehl at sandia.gov



Script started on Fri May  4 07:33:56 2001
[root at filmore /mnt]# fdisk /dev/sdc

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 30945.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 30945 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1             1     15472 124278808+  8e  Unknown
/dev/sdc2         15473     15476     32130   8e  Unknown
/dev/sdc3         15477     15480     32130   8e  Unknown
/dev/sdc4         15481     15484     32130   8e  Unknown

Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
Reboot your system to ensure the partition table is updated.

WARNING: If you have created or modified any DOS 6.x
partitions, please see the fdisk manual page for additional
information.
Syncing disks.

[root at filmore /mnt]# pvcreate /dev/sdc2
pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/sdc2" successfully created

[root at filmore /mnt]# pvcreate /dev/sdc3
pvcreate -- can't open physical volume "/dev/sdc3" to get its size

pvcreate [-d|--debug] [-f[f]|--force [--force]] [-h|--help] [-y|--yes]
        [-v|--verbose] [-V|--version] PhysicalVolume [PhysicalVolume...]

Script done on Fri May  4 07:34:33 2001