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Old 01-30-2008, 10:58 PM   #1
ciaran_skye
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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?
 
Old 02-01-2008, 09:37 PM   #2
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Question 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.

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