Hello Matt, Can you perform the command cat /etc/fstab and see what partitions you already created during installation ?
Did you leave the installation to decide what to do with partitioning by itself or did you did that yourself ? Kind regards. > On 16 Feb 2018, at 00:23, Matt Simonsen <m...@khoza.com> wrote: > > Hello all, > > This may not be oVirt specific (but it may be) so thank you in advance for > any assistance. > > I have a system installed with oVirt Node Next 4.1.9 that was installed to > /dev/sda > > I had a seperate RAID Volume /dev/sdb that should not have been used, but now > that the operating system is loaded I'm struggling to get the device > partitioned. > > I've tried mkfs.ext4 on the device and also pvcreate, with the errors below. > I've also rebooted a couple times and tried to disable multipathd. Is > multipathd even safe to disable on Node Next? > > Below are the errors I've received, and thank you again for any tips. > > > [root@node1-g6-h3 ~]# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb > mke2fs 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013) > /dev/sdb is entire device, not just one partition! > Proceed anyway? (y,n) y > /dev/sdb is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here! > [root@node1-g6-h3 ~]# gdisk > GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.6 > > Type device filename, or press <Enter> to exit: /dev/sdb > Caution: invalid main GPT header, but valid backup; regenerating main header > from backup! > > Caution! After loading partitions, the CRC doesn't check out! > Warning! Main partition table CRC mismatch! Loaded backup partition table > instead of main partition table! > > Warning! One or more CRCs don't match. You should repair the disk! > > Partition table scan: > MBR: not present > BSD: not present > APM: not present > GPT: damaged > > Found invalid MBR and corrupt GPT. What do you want to do? (Using the > GPT MAY permit recovery of GPT data.) > 1 - Use current GPT > 2 - Create blank GPT > > Your answer: 2 > > Command (? for help): n > Partition number (1-128, default 1): > First sector (34-16952264590, default = 2048) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: > Last sector (2048-16952264590, default = 16952264590) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: > Current type is 'Linux filesystem' > Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300): 8e00 > Changed type of partition to 'Linux LVM' > > Command (? for help): w > > Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING > PARTITIONS!! > > Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): y > OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/sdb. > The operation has completed successfully. > [root@node1-g6-h3 ~]# pvcreate /dev/sdb1 > Device /dev/sdb1 not found (or ignored by filtering). > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users