Hi everyone, I have an LVM comprising 2 partitions on a drive I wish to read data from, and I have a 'main' file from somewhere in /etc/lvm from that old drive:
main { id = "em7z2K-GhvB-mpW4-YNjE-SiZ7-zia2-PIObh2" [...] physical_volumes { pv0 { id = "6oVVgd-WIVK-qB0y-PXk2-Acu5-ZxcI-gMj5JD" device = "/dev/md2" # Hint only status = ["ALLOCATABLE"] # 74.4062 Gigabytes } } logical_volumes { root { id = "Cu9udo-QFcL-72XW-G1OU-1sQA-giBa-WASzs2" status = ["READ", "WRITE", "VISIBLE"] # 74.125Gigabytes } } swap { id = "aM7Jm4-QfMW-4y2c-zCv3-0O6f-CVzz-P3Ebg4" status = ["READ", "WRITE", "VISIBLE"] #256 Megabytes } some bits snipped, obviously. Anyway so the lone disk is in a separate box now: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdd1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hdd2 14 9729 78043770 fd Linux raid autodetect So... sudo pvcreate -u 6oVVgd-WIVK-qB0y-PXk2-Acu5-ZxcI-gMj5JD /dev/hdd2 Software RAID md superblock detected on /dev/hdd2. Wipe it? [y/n] n Physical volume "/dev/hdd2" successfully created Then.... pvdisplay --- NEW Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hdd2 VG Name PV Size 74.43 GB Allocatable NO PE Size (KByte) 0 Total PE 0 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 0 PV UUID 6oVVgd-WIVK-qB0y-PXk2-Acu5-ZxcI-gMj5JD Then.... sudo vgcreate -v main /dev/hdd2 Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices Adding physical volume '/dev/hdd2' to volume group 'main' /dev/hdd2 not identified as an existing physical volume Unable to add physical volume '/dev/hdd2' to volume group 'main'. oh dear. As it turns out, I can run pvcreate and pvdisplay ok, but a second run of pvdisplay... and it's gone. vgcreate always fails. Any ideas anyone? I'm a little startled at how hard it seems to be to mount a 'foreign' LVM drive in Linux. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list