LVM2 - pvcreate error

Hi people, I've been trying to set up a volume group on a partition on an IDE hard drive (a Western Digital 80 GB) at /dev/hda. I am doing this by issuing the command pvcreate /dev/hda4. However, instead of creating the physical volume, an error is returned: Failed to create regex device filter.

Re: LVM2 - pvcreate error

Sam Peppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Wed, Aug 25, 2004: I've been trying to set up a volume group on a partition on an IDE hard drive (a Western Digital 80 GB) at /dev/hda. I am doing this by issuing the command pvcreate /dev/hda4. However, instead of creating the physical volume, an error is

Re: LVM2 - pvcreate error

hi! First of all - I also think that this is nothing security related!!! maybe ltrace it? Because I don't think the error message comes from pvcreate: strings `which pvcreate` | grep regex (yields nothing) [EMAIL PROTECTED] roger # strings `which pvcreate` | grep regex

LVM2 - pvcreate error

Again, my apologies to all for posting my query up on the wrong news list. Just to tie off the thread, it was pointed out to me from reading the source of the LVM2 tools, that pvcreate may have been failing due to a misconfiguration in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf - it's failing to set up a filter for the