[linux-lvm] problem with vgcreate

[Steven Lembark]

-- "Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net>

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> I'm trying to create a LVM for a system.  I partitioned my drives,
> rebooted and do my pvcreates but then it blows up on vgcreate.  The
> drives are both 18Gig, I've duplicated the partitions so they're
> identicle size even though they're going to be concats, not stripes.
>
> Here's a screen dump just made a bit readable.
>
> root at performance:/root# pvcreate /dev/sda2
> pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/sda2" successfully created
>
> root at performance:/root# pvcreate /dev/sdb2
> pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/sda2" successfully created
>
> root at performance:/root# pvscan -v
> pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> pvscan -- walking through all physical volumes found
> pvscan -- no valid physical volumes found
>
> performanc:/root# vgcreate -v lvm-vg1
> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2
> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 vgcreate -- checking volume group

Any reason you use the devfs paths for the vgcreate and
devfsd for the pvcreate's?


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