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linux-lvm Dan Johansson 3 participants 4 messages Nov 4, 2005

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Hi,

I'm new to this list, but not to Linux and LVM.
I'm trying to setup a new Linux-server with an on board RAID-controller (Promise PDC20265 FastTrak100 Lite/Ultra100). Now everything goes well until I try to do a pvcreate on one of the raid-partitions, this is the output I get:

# pvcreate /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf4
  Device /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf4 not found.

But the device-file is there (along with the other partitions).

# ll /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf*
brw-------  1 root root 253,  7 Nov  4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf
brw-------  1 root root 253,  8 Nov  4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf1
brw-------  1 root root 253,  9 Nov  4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf2
brw-------  1 root root 253, 10 Nov  4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf3
brw-------  1 root root 253, 11 Nov  4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf4

and dmraid shows the raidgroup OK:

# dmraid -s
*** Active Set
name   : pdc_edcfibbf
size   : 160086465
stride : 128
type   : mirror
status : ok
subsets: 0
devs   : 2
spares : 0

Any suggestions on how I can solve this issue and move on with my installation.

Regards,

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Quoted 2 lines · Dan Johansson
# pvcreate /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf4
  Device /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf4 not found.

Look for (commented out) types line in lvm.conf
and enable it saying:
types = [ "device-mapper", 1 ]

(This will happen by default in the next release.)

Alasdair

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Dan,

change your lvm2 "devices" configuration in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf to include:

types = [ "device-mapper", 254 ]

Regards,
Heinz -- The LVM Guy --

Quoted 31 lines · Dan Johansson

Hi,

I'm new to this list, but not to Linux and LVM.
I'm trying to setup a new Linux-server with an on board RAID-controller (Promise PDC20265 FastTrak100 Lite/Ultra100). Now everything goes well until I try to do a pvcreate on one of the raid-partitions, this is the output I get:

# pvcreate /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf4
  Device /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf4 not found.

But the device-file is there (along with the other partitions).

# ll /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf*
brw-------  1 root root 253,  7 Nov  4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf
brw-------  1 root root 253,  8 Nov  4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf1
brw-------  1 root root 253,  9 Nov  4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf2
brw-------  1 root root 253, 10 Nov  4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf3
brw-------  1 root root 253, 11 Nov  4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf4

and dmraid shows the raidgroup OK:

# dmraid -s
*** Active Set
name   : pdc_edcfibbf
size   : 160086465
stride : 128
type   : mirror
status : ok
subsets: 0
devs   : 2
spares : 0
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Any suggestions on how I can solve this issue and move on with my installation.

Regards,

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TANKS!

That did it!!!

Regards,
--Dan

Quoted 76 lines · Heinz Mauelshagen

Dan,

change your lvm2 "devices" configuration in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf to include:

types = [ "device-mapper", 254 ]

Regards,
Heinz -- The LVM Guy --

Quoted 43 lines · Dan Johansson

Hi,

I'm new to this list, but not to Linux and LVM.
I'm trying to setup a new Linux-server with an on board RAID-controller (Promise PDC20265 FastTrak100 Lite/Ultra100). Now everything goes well until I try to do a pvcreate on one of the raid-partitions, this is the output I get:

# pvcreate /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf4
  Device /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf4 not found.

But the device-file is there (along with the other partitions).

# ll /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf*
brw-------  1 root root 253,  7 Nov  4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf
brw-------  1 root root 253,  8 Nov  4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf1
brw-------  1 root root 253,  9 Nov  4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf2
brw-------  1 root root 253, 10 Nov  4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf3
brw-------  1 root root 253, 11 Nov  4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf4

and dmraid shows the raidgroup OK:

# dmraid -s
*** Active Set
name   : pdc_edcfibbf
size   : 160086465
stride : 128
type   : mirror
status : ok
subsets: 0
devs   : 2
spares : 0

Any suggestions on how I can solve this issue and move on with my installation.

Regards,
--
Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu>
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Heinz Mauelshagen                                 Red Hat GmbH
Consulting Development Engineer                   Am Sonnenhang 11
Cluster and Storage Development                   56242 Marienrachdorf
                                                  Germany
[email protected]                            +49 2626 141200
                                                       FAX 924446

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