pvcreate can't open /dev/md1 exclusively

New problem getting FAI to run cleanly with LVM. I'm sure I'm missing something, but again I'm not sure what. There was a similar question on the list in Nov 2021, but I don't see an answer for it. The tail end of my for

Re: pvcreate can't open /dev/md1 exclusively

Hi Matthew, Am 24.01.25 um 18:18 schrieb Matthew Pounsett: The server has four drives:  two SSDs that I'm trying to mirror and put volumes on, and two larger HDDs that FAI should be ignoring.   It does seem to be ignoring the two HDDs now, thanks to help in the last thread. […] $disklist shows

Re: pvcreate can't open /dev/md1 exclusively

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM Christopher Huhn wrote: > > sda8:00 7.3T 0 disk > > sdb8:16 0 7.3T 0 disk > > sdc8:32 0 447.1G 0 disk > > sdd8:48 0 447.1G 0 disk > as you can see here the large disks are sda (disk1) and sdb (disk2) > while the SSDs are sdc and sd

Re: setup-storage pulling in disks it should ignore

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:33:56 -0500, Matthew Pounsett < > m...@conundrum.com> said: >> I've used dd to wipe all four drives of data left behind by the > previous hardware controller, and > > when I started the install all four dri

Re: setup-storage pulling in disks it should ignore

> On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:33:56 -0500, Matthew Pounsett > said: > Executing: mdadm --assemble --scan --config=/tmp/fai/mdadm-from-examine.conf > mdadm --assemble --scan --config=/tmp/fai/mdadm-from-examine.conf had exit code 1 > (STDERR) mdadm: Devices UUID-01c77a40:7ab3107d