Well, normally one does this: fdasd -a /dev/dasde fdasd -a /dev/dasdk
and then pvcreate /dev/dasde1 pvcreate /dev/dasdk1 then create the group out of /dev/dasde1 and /dev/dask1 Marcy -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lu GL Gao Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 8:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LINUX-390] expected Label VOL1 not found Our zVM version is 5.4. Linux version is SUSE Enterprise Server 11 SP1 running as guest on zVM. I add 2 more dasd for this guest's directory like below: MDISK 0207 3390 0001 END LBE508 MR LNX4VM LNX4VM LNX4VM MDISK 0208 3390 0001 END LBE509 MR LNX4VM LNX4VM LNX4VM On linux, I want create a volume group by these 2 dasd. But system reject creating this volume group. A warning diaglog pop-up showing following messages: ------------------------------------------------------------ Failure occurred during following action: Creating volume group testvg from /dev/dasde /dev/dasdk System error code was: -4010 ------------------------------------------------------------ At the same time, I also found error messages on this guest's console: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- dasde: Warning, expected Label VOL1 not found, treating as CDL formated Disk Jan 29 19:12:03 LXCPOB kernel: Warning, expected Label VOL1 not found, treating as CDL formated Disk dasdk: Warning, expected Label VOL1 not found, treating as CDL formated Disk Jan 29 19:12:03 LXCPOB kernel: Warning, expected Label VOL1 not found, treating as CDL formated Disk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyone has idea about this problem? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
