Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
I am trying to set up a new drbd with lvm on it this time, and after doing # pvcreate -ff /dev/drbd0 Physical volume "/dev/drbd0" successfully created I get a message which indicates some confusion: # pvs Found duplicate PV m8M0tNOCx83QS53D07kybsEDl8oNt4X6: using /dev/sdb1 not /dev/drbd0 Found duplicate PV m8M0tNOCx83QS53D07kybsEDl8oNt4X6: using /dev/drbd0 not /dev/sdb1 Found duplicate PV m8M0tNOCx83QS53D07kybsEDl8oNt4X6: using /dev/sdb1 not /dev/drbd0 PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sda2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 931.19G 880.69G /dev/sdb1 lvm2 -- 14.55T 14.55T I don't think it should be touching /dev/sdb1 in case it screws the drbd block device from underneath, there isn't any mention of this behaviour that I can see in the drbd users manual, can anyone point me in the right direction on how to handle this or if it's a problem at all? Also, this is a 16TB block device created with the very latest drbd-8.3.0 , which was 16TB, so how come doing a pvcreate has left me with 14.55TB, is there really 1.5TB in activity log due to drbd?? Cat /proc/partitions seems to think the drbd device is bigger than that... perhaps I'm misinterpreting but I'd like to know where all that space went. # cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 17 15624999983 sdb1 147 0 15624523104 drbd0 -h -- Hari Sekhon Always open to interesting opportunities http://www.linkedin.com/in/harisekhon