Yes, I did make some manual modifications but to make sure I hadn't messed 
things up I did a clean install of OF2.2.

This is always reproducible on my system and could pose a problem (I guess) if 
someone has a crash and needs to re-install OF. 

My configuration is as follows: a dual Athlon MP 2400 on a Tyan Tiger MB; 3ware 
9500s-12 with 8 drives; 1 pair of raid 1 drives for the o/s, swap, boot and the 
volume 'data'; 6 drives in a raid 5 array with the volume 'storage' on it.

The volume 'storage' was exported from a previous install of OF, the raid 1 
boot partitions etc were wiped and reformatted, if I leave the volume 'storage' 
on the system and install OF on the raid 1 then then I can't create the volume 
on th e raid 1 device as I described earlier. If I unplug the six HD in the 
raid 5 array then I can install OF and create the volume 'data' on the raid 1 
device.

I have a recollection that I posted about this on the forums when I first got 
my system some months ago.

If I follow your instructions and do:

vgchange -an
vgremove data
vgremove storage

vgdisplay to make sure there's nothing else

.... the only thing left on the system is the exported 'storage' volume. This 
still has a logical volume on it and as I'm rather nervous about doing an 
lvremove (does that make it impossible to get at the data?) I can't get rid of 
that volume. I have 700GB of data on thare that I don't want to lose.

I should be able to create a new pv, lv etc. with an exported on the system 
shouldn't I, or am I (quite possibly) misunderstanding what's going on here?

Regards

Bill


----- "Rafiu Fakunle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bill Pye wrote:


> Sorry, but I'm unable to reproduce this problem. Did you perform any 
> manual steps when you were trying to get parted working?
> 
> Try
> 
> vgchange -an
> vgremove data
> vgremove storage
> 
> vgdisplay to make sure there's nothing else
> 
> Go back into the GUI and recreate the volume group.
> 
> R.

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