On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 5:26 PM, <fe...@crowfix.com> wrote: > Got my two 4TB drives installed. Now I need to get stuff off /dev/hda > so I can turn it into an LVM volumne. So I copied everything there to > the the 7.3TB LVM filesystem, then tried to create a new pv on > /dev/hda1. No joy. I get > > Device /dev/hda1 not found (or ignored by filtering). > > /dev/hda has only /dev/hda1 which takes all the space. The partition > type is 8e, Linux LVM. It's not mounted. I tried pvcreate -f. I > tried dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 count=1. What is pvcreate really > complaining about?
...I don't know, but I think you ought to burn in those drives before you move all of your data onto them. One good way might be to create, damage and rebuild a raid5 volume on them. They're at the high risk period of their lifetime, and you don't want them to fail once you've got data on them. -- :wq
