Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-30 Thread Stroller
On 29 June 2012, at 23:05, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: >> ... >> How come its hda? Perhaps this is the problem, it certainly should be >> fixed anyway. > > Because it was set up that way 8 years ago. /dev/hda is the only IDE > drive in the system, and has the MBR, so I can't make /dev/hda an LVM >

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread felix
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:02:42PM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > If they are serial ata drives, I thought newer kernels would use > /dev/sda etc. Is this really a ide drive? Or do you have the BIOS > pretend they are? Please gve me a little credit. I can screw up lots of things and for

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread covici
fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:56:58PM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > > 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 > > > t

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread felix
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 08:13:54PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > ...I don't know, but I think you ought to burn in those drives before > you move all of your data onto them. One good way might be to create, > damage and rebuild a raid5 volume on them. They're at the high risk > period of their lifet

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread felix
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 10:05:40AM +1000, Paul Colquhoun wrote: > 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? Ah geez, yet more LVM lore I have long since forgotten from lac

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 5:26 PM, 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 /de

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread Paul Colquhoun
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 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread felix
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:56:58PM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread covici
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 fo

[gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread felix
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/hd