Re: pvcreate on loopback file with lvm2

2005-08-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: pvcreate on loopback file with lvm2

2005-08-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I have installed lvm2 on debian and trying to run: > pvcreate /dev/snap > (when /dev/snap is a loopback file) > and get an error "Device /dev/snap not found". > > My exact steps: > 1) dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/snap bs=4096 count=1310702 (l

Re: pvcreate on loopback file with lvm2

2005-08-22 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have installed lvm2 on debian and trying to run: > pvcreate /dev/snap > (when /dev/snap is a loopback file) > and get an error "Device /dev/snap not found". While technically this is a problem for the debian-users mailing list, I will try to help: > My exact

pvcreate on loopback file with lvm2

2005-08-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I have installed lvm2 on debian and trying to run: pvcreate /dev/snap (when /dev/snap is a loopback file) and get an error "Device /dev/snap not found". My exact steps: 1) dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/snap bs=4096 count=1310702 (lopback file 5GB) 2) mkfs.ext3 /dev/snap 3) pvcreate /dev/snap Wh