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 > > > 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? > > 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 > volume, it has to be /dev/hda1. I don't want to make some other drive > the boot drive; they are LVM volumes also. And I also want an hd(0,x) > for grub which doesn't change as I add new drives. > > Besides all that, why do you think it's a problem and how do you > propose fixing it? 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?
-- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com