Dick Davies wrote:
On 17/11/05, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dick Davies wrote:
That's weird. All I can say is that it's definitely possible to do LVM on
logical partitions.
It does seem odd. Are you using Sid, or Etch? I am running Sarge.
Could that make a difference?
I'm on etch, so maybe. Can other tools see it?
(can you mkswap /dev/hda12 for example).
If so, you could try a vgscan or a reboot.
A reboot seems to have been the required trick. I usually try to avoid
reboots when I can since my wife leave a lot of tabs open in Firefox and
I don't want to close something that she is using if it isn't necessary.
But it did solve the problem this time. I recreated /dev/hda12 and
removed the LV and VG that I originally had on /dev/hda1 and then
rebooted. After that I was able to do pvcreate /dev/hda1 and pvcreate
/dev/hda12. I then made a VG from both of them, and created a LV on
them that was almost the size of the full VG. Then I created an ext2fs
on the LV and mounted it, followed by copying almost everything from my
regular partitions over to the LV. This was more than would have fit on
/dev/hda1 alone. Doing an ls -R appears to show that everything is
likely there and a df shows the VG to contain close to the same amount
as the other partitions combined. I can view text files and .pdf files
that are on the LV as well, so it seems that everything is working
correctly now.
So, now I will play around with it a little more before I redo
everything and commit myself to it.
Thanks, everyone!
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