[email protected] wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:56:58PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > [email protected] 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?
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