On 06/29/2012 03:05 PM, 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?
I can't speak for John, obviously, but /dev/hdxx is typical for the deprecated kernel drivers. The newer drivers use /dev/sdxx
