I am having problems creating another volume group.
This is on a SuSE 7.2 system.
We have had one volume group, lvm1, defined for sometime now.
I now need to create another volume group, lvm2, and am not
having much success.
I have two 3390-3's, /dev/dasdj and /dev/dasdk which I ran
dasdfmt and pvcreate with no problems.
But when I do a pvscan, sometimes all dasd volumes display,
and sometimes they don't. Four volumes total should display.
See below.
The vgcreate command also fails.
Any ideas?
Thanks, Brent
Below is the exact sequence of the commands I did:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > lvscan
lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/lvm1/zeus1" [4.5 GB]
lvscan -- 1 logical volumes with 4.5 GB total in 1 volume group
lvscan -- 1 active logical volumes
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > pvscan
pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/dasdg1" of VG "lvm1" [2.29 GB / 0 free]
pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/dasdh1" of VG "lvm1" [2.29 GB / 80 MB free]
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/dasdj" is in no VG [0]
pvscan -- total: 3 [4.59 GB] / in use: 2 [4.59 GB] / in no VG: 1 [0]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > pvscan
pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/dasdg1" of VG "lvm1" [2.29 GB / 0 free]
pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/dasdh1" of VG "lvm1" [2.29 GB / 80 MB free]
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/dasdj" is in no VG [0]
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/dasdk" is in no VG [0]
pvscan -- total: 4 [4.59 GB] / in use: 2 [4.59 GB] / in no VG: 2 [0]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > vgcreate lvm2 /dev/dasdj /dev/dasdk
vgcreate -- some invalid physical volumes in command line
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > vgcreate lvm2 /dev/dasdj
vgcreate -- more than 20% [181760 KB] of physical volume /dev/dasdj with 0
KB would be used
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > pvscan
pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/dasdg1" of VG "lvm1" [2.29 GB / 0 free]
pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/dasdh1" of VG "lvm1" [2.29 GB / 80 MB free]
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/dasdj" is in no VG [0]
pvscan -- total: 3 [4.59 GB] / in use: 2 [4.59 GB] / in no VG: 1 [0]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > pvscan
pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/dasdg1" of VG "lvm1" [2.29 GB / 0
free]
pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/dasdh1" of VG "lvm1" [2.29 GB / 80
MB free]
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/dasdj" is associated to an unknown VG (run
vgscan)
pvscan -- total: 3 [4.72 GB] / in use: 3 [4.72 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > vgscan
vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
vgscan -- found active volume group "lvm1"
vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created
vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume
group
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > pvscan
pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/dasdg1" of VG "lvm1" [2.29 GB / 0 free]
pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/dasdh1" of VG "lvm1" [2.29 GB / 80 MB free
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/dasdj" is in no VG [0]
pvscan -- total: 3 [4.59 GB] / in use: 2 [4.59 GB] / in no VG: 1 [0]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > pvscan
pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/dasdg1" of VG "lvm1" [2.29 GB / 0 free]
pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/dasdh1" of VG "lvm1" [2.29 GB / 80 MB free]
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/dasdj" is in no VG [0]
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/dasdk" is in no VG [0]
pvscan -- total: 4 [4.59 GB] / in use: 2 [4.59 GB] / in no VG: 2 [0]
Brent Victor
UTS Global, LLC
390 Reed Street
Santa Clara, CA 95050
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: (408) 496-4253
Fax: (408) 235-8617
