M. Lewis wrote:
Tarhon-Onu Victor wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, M. Lewis wrote:
>
>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>> /dev/hdc1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
>> /dev/hdc2 14 9729 78043770 8e Linux LVM
>>
>> Still no luck though.
>
> Well, that's an LVM volume. You have to run first pvscan (or lvm
> pvscan) and see what physical volumes are created (let's hope you'll
> find /dev/hdc2 there) and what volume groups are available on that
> physical volume. After that you have to run lvscan (or lvm lvscan) and
> see what logical volumes are available (assuming that the current
> running kernel supports the LVM version of that volume).
>
> Running pvscan rull generate the and output alike with the following:
>
> pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdc2" of VG "Volume00" [33.59 GB / 0
free]
> pvscan -- total: 1 [33.60 GB] / in use: 1 [33.60 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0]
>
Thanks Tarhon. Pvscan doesn't show /dev/hdc2 at all. Does pvscan only
work on mounted drives?
No, pvscan lists all disks/partitions that are registered to be used for
LVM. If it doesn't show up in pvscan, you never ran pvcreate on it or
you deleted it from LVM with pvremove.