On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, Neale Ferguson wrote: > I added a disk to the system and now when I did a shutdown -r now I am seeing > this message repeated ad infintum at boot time: > > A start job is running for dev-disk...x2dpart2.device (42s / no limit) [OK] > > What have I stuffed up?
Did you explicitly 'dd' off any labels from prior usage ? Also remember that LVM looks beyond the first sector (and offset multiples), and needs to be 'scratched' with the tools in the lvs2 suite. the LVM is sneaky enough to sniff for and then to 'see' old layout data, and to try to assemble a partially broken drive into its coverage -- Russ herrold ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
