LVM issue with USB stick: Device /dev/sdc not found (or ignored by filtering).

[rhizoma rio]

Maybe you should create partition with linux lvm type first from fdisk
before doing pvcreate.
And you should type pvcreate /dev/sdc1 instead of pvcreate /dev/sdc.
CMIIW

On Dec 11, 2010 2:47 PM, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:


 (if i might follow up to my own post)


On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
> as part of a tutorial on LVM, i want to add a s...
 ok, this is a bit weird.  i had some leftover junk regarding PVs
apparently registered on my system, so i rebooted without the USB
stick, then:

# pvs
 PV         VG   Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
 /dev/sda5  lynx lvm2 a-   465.52g 52.00m
#

ok, that's correct, it's a single-PV layout.  i plug in the 2G USB
stick, and:

# pvs
 Couldn't find device with uuid 'Ervl7t-sT4r-b9dS-sHNp-ZqI3-IWUP-kFTnsj'.
 Couldn't find device with uuid 'Ervl7t-sT4r-b9dS-sHNp-ZqI3-IWUP-kFTnsj'.
 Couldn't find device with uuid 'Ervl7t-sT4r-b9dS-sHNp-ZqI3-IWUP-kFTnsj'.
 PV             VG       Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
 /dev/sda5      lynx     lvm2 a-   465.52g  52.00m
 /dev/sdc1      CentOS55 lvm2 a-     1.81g   1.81g
 unknown device CentOS55 lvm2 a-   232.62g 183.62g
#

 whoa.  i can see that this USB stick is a leftover from a class i
taught a while back during which one of the students must have done
exactly what i was talking about -- turned the drive into a small LVM
PV on a CentOS 5.5 system.  so the /dev/sdc1 entry looks correct, but
i have no idea where that "unknown device" entry comes from -- how
does inserting a 2G USB drive suddenly produce a 232G physical volume?

 i popped out the USB drive, things were back to normal.  i put it
back in, i get those two entries back again.  i can only assume that,
somehow, the PV structure on the USB drive is corrupted so it's
showing up as that much larger device.

 thoughts?  the simple solution is just to reformat the USB drive,
but i'd like to know what might be happening here so i can avoid it in
the future.  thanks.


rday

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