[linux-lvm] New disk; "Couldn't find uuid" after successful pvcreate&vgextend

[Barnaby Claydon]

# pvcreate -v /dev/hdc
    Set up physical volume for "/dev/hdc" with 390721584 available sectors
    Zeroing start of device /dev/hdc
  Physical volume "/dev/hdc" successfully created


# pvdisplay -v /dev/hdc
    Using physical volume(s) on command line
  --- NEW Physical volume ---
  PV Name               /dev/hdc
  VG Name
  PV Size               186.31 GB
  Allocatable           NO
  PE Size (KByte)       0
  Total PE              0
  Free PE               0
  Allocated PE          0
  PV UUID               xacykK-MXPT-2yO0-qf2R-TBTU-VJb5-vVYw4Q


I haven't tried vgextend again since running badblocks - it looks like 
the drive is fine though:

# badblocks -svw /dev/hdc
Checking for bad blocks in read-write mode
 From block 0 to 195360984
Testing with pattern 0xaa: done                        984
Reading and comparing: done                        984
Testing with pattern 0x55: done                        984
Reading and comparing: done                        984
Testing with pattern 0xff: done                        984
Reading and comparing: done                        984
Testing with pattern 0x00: done                        984
Reading and comparing: done                        984
Pass completed, 0 bad blocks found.






James Hammett wrote:
> What do you get when you try pvdisplay?
>
> James
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been successfully running LVM2 (2.01.04) on Debian Sarge 
>> (2.6.8-2-686) for months.
>>
>> As I've done many times before, I added a new disk yesterday. I 
>> successfully ran the following, both without error:
>>
>> pvcreate -v /dev/hdc
>> and
>> vgextend -v mono_media /dev/hdc
>>
>> As standard practice to make sure everything was ok, I then ran:
>>
>> vgscan -v
>>
>> At this point I got several references to "Couldn't find uuid..." 
>> repeated with the same uuid several times. At this point it seemed 
>> logical to back-out my changes, so I tried to run the following:
>>
>> vgreduce -v mono_media /dev/hdc
>>
>> Unfortunately this gave the same "Couldn't find uuid..." errors as 
>> 'vgscan'. As it seemed somewhat logical, I tried running the same 
>> 'pvcreate' command, again without error:
>>
>> pvcreate -v /dev/hdc
>>
>> After 'pvcreate' had finished, I was THEN able to run 'vgreduce' and 
>> restore my 'mono_media' VG to working order.
>>
>> At this point I was a bit baffled, running 'lvmdiskscan' after the 
>> initial 'pvcreate' shows the disk as present, but if I reboot after 
>> just that first 'pvcreate' step and run 'lvmdisksacn' after the 
>> reboot, /dev/hdc isn't shown.
>>
>> To rule-out a hardware problem I successfully ran 'mkfs.ext3 
>> /dev/hdc' and was able to mount and navigate the volume without 
>> errors. Last night I also left 'badblocks -svw /dev/hdc' running 
>> which is almost complete and hasn't found any errors yet.
>>
>> I will reply with full command output once 'badblocks' has finished, 
>> but I hope this brief synopsis makes sense.
>>
>> Thanks everyone!
>> -Barnaby
>>
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