On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:26:51 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > Got my two 4TB drives installed. Now I need to get stuff off /dev/hda > so I can turn it into an LVM volumne. So I copied everything there to > the the 7.3TB LVM filesystem, then tried to create a new pv on > /dev/hda1. No joy. I get > > Device /dev/hda1 not found (or ignored by filtering). > > /dev/hda has only /dev/hda1 which takes all the space. The partition > type is 8e, Linux LVM. It's not mounted. I tried pvcreate -f. I > tried dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 count=1. What is pvcreate really > complaining about?
What active 'filter = ' lines do you currently have in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf? Does it have something like 'r|/dev/hd.*' in it to hide all the IDE devices from LVM? -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro
