Receiving error when trying to add new LVM drive on Fedora 8
 

I'm wanting to make a media server out of a former dual-boot desktop, but after I removed my Windows XP fake raid I attempted to add the drives to my current LV, however I get an error saying it couldn't get exclusive lock and them and suggested they're mounted.

I cleared their MBR in the BIOS so they're effectively a clean slate and nothing should be accessing them since they're not even partitioned.

Does anyone have suggestions on what to do next? Also, is it possible once I initialize them to simply extend my current /home partition to them without destroying the data in it already?

Receiving error when trying to add new LVM drive on Fedora 8
 

Could you post the results of using the fdisk command on the drives, such as:

fdisk -l /dev/sda

If you used Windows XP to created mirrored disks, then you also needed to make them dynamic before you mirrored them. Chances are the id for the partition(s) is/are wrong.

If your /home partition is not a logical volume, you will not be able to extend it. Still that can be worked around. Let's see your disks layout first.

... marXtevens