Is there actually a /dev/dasdk1 entry in /dev? (And for your other volumes l-v as well?)
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carlos Palmarante Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 1:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: pvcreate hi folks I need to create volumes groups, with 16 dasds fisical disk when I run the follwing commands this message appears i390:~ # i390:~ # for i in g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v > do > dasdfmt -b 4096 -f /dev/dasd${i} > done I am going to format the device /dev/dasde in the following way: Device number of device : 0x2733 Major number of device : 94 Minor number of device : 16 Labelling device : yes Disk label : LNX1 x80405228 Blocksize : 4096 --->> ATTENTION! <<--- All data in the specified range of that device will be lost. Type "yes" to continue, no will leave the disk untouched: yes Formatting the device. This may take a while (get yourself a coffee). Finished formatting the device. Rereading the partition table... done. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# pvcreate /dev/dasd[klmnopqrstuv]1 pvcreate -- locking logical volume manager pvcreate -- checking physical volume name "/dev/dasdk1" pvcreate -- getting physical volume size pvcreate -- checking maximum physical volume size pvcreate -- checking partition type pvcreate -- invalid physical volume "/dev/dasdk1"
