Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Hard disk use

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

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On Thu, August 10, 2006 16:11, Bjorn wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I've just installed Devil-Linux on an old pentium machine to be used as
> (among other things) a backup server with FTP, Samba and maybe later
> Apache and mail.
>
>
> I have a 200GB disk in the computer. The hard drive is partitioned as
> follows: /dev/hda1 - 250MB to hold the devil-linux cd-iso.
> /dev/hda2 - 20MB for the configuration media.
> /dev/hda3 - The rest of the disk to be used to store data.
>
>
> The installation completed fine, I can boot the system and everything
> works. However, when I try to create logical volumes i run into problems. I
> want to 'partition' /dev/hda3 and here is how I do it (from chapter 5 in
> documentation):
>
>
> pvcreate /dev/hda3 - Physical volume successfully created
>
>
> vgcreate -s 8M devil-linux /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 - No
> valid physical volumes in command line
>
> I can never get 'vgcreate' to complete successfully. How am I suppose
> to do this? I get the same result if I write /dev/hda3.

Try to use :
pvcreate /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3

Did you set the partition type to the one for LVM ?

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org

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