[DRBD-user] drbd attach failure - (104) Can not open backing device

Felix Frank ff at mpexnet.de
Mon Mar 28 10:03:04 CEST 2011

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


Hi,

> Found LVM2 physical volume signature
>      8257536 kB data area apparently used
>      8281212 kB left usable by current configuration
> ...
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2              14        1044     8281507+  8e  Linux LVM

while this does not necessarily mean that sda2 is an LVM PV, the above
message sure indicates that.

You may have blasted your LV signatures? I'm not sure.

I believe you either want to get rid of LVM here, or use an LV as a
backing device (instead of sda2).

HTH,
Felix



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