topic Re: pvcreate in Operating System - Linux

pvcreate

yulianto piyut — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:29:44 GMT

all,

I have system running with Redhat AS 4. when i try to pvcreate new lun,there is error like this:

pvcreate -- ERROR: "/etc/lvmtab" doesn't exist or is unreadable; you may need to run vgscan

anyone know how to fix it ?

-yut-

Re: pvcreate

Stuart Browne — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:40:49 GMT

.. and when you ran 'vgscan', what did it say?

Re: pvcreate

yulianto piyut — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 06:15:32 GMT

when i run vgscan:

root -> vgscan
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
/dev/cdrom: open failed: No medium found
/dev/sda: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/sda: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 549781962752: Input/output error
/dev/sda: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/sda1: read failed after 0 of 512 at 549777571840: Input/output error
/dev/sda1: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/sdb: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/sdb: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 549781962752: Input/output error
/dev/sdb: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/sdb1: read failed after 0 of 512 at 549777571840: Input/output error
/dev/sdb1: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error
No volume groups found

Re: pvcreate

Andrew Cowan — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:58:43 GMT

What happens if you run "fdisk -l"? This looks like you have a corrupt partition tables(s)?