Re: I've done pvcreate to 4 of these drives but...

On 3/7/25 23:10, Pieter Bowman wrote:
> Try using a gpt partition table, in fdisk the command "g", will create 
> an empty gpt partition table.
>
> Then you should be able to create a partition for the whole drive.

Done that for /dev/sde making it /dev/sde1, then pvcreated /dev/sda, 
/dec/sdb, /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd, the first 4.

Then:root@amanda:/etc/lvm# vgcreate amandatapes /dev/sda /dev/sdb 
/dev/sdc /dev/sdd
   Volume group "amandatapes" successfully created

except I can't find it. How do I "mount" it for use??  its not visible 
in /dev nor the / filesystem..

root@amanda:/etc/lvm# vgscan
   Found volume group "amandatapes" using metadata type lvm2

S/b something named amandatapes with 14.something TiB capacity

So it looks legit but its invisible??

I'd also nominate this as the blindingly brightest example of the most 
obtuse man pages ever.  So I'm likely screwing this up and destroying a 
kilobuck worth of drives.

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

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