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

[Bjorn <w23...@ya...>]

--- Heiko Zuerker <he...@zu...> skrev:

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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 ?

OK, this was the problem. /dev/hda3 was 'Linux' system type I changed
it to 'Linux LVM' and now it works. Thanks a lot!


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