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Subject: Re: partition table read incorrectly
To: wichert@cistron.nl (Wichert Akkerman)
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 19:42:13 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-lvm@sistina.com
In-Reply-To: <20011002202934.G14582@wiggy.net> from "Wichert Akkerman" at Oct 02, 2001 08:29:34 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> I seem to run into a weird problem. LVM refused to work properly,
> after a "vgscan" command "vgchange -a y" would still complain
> that things weren't consistent and I got a messages about an
> I/O error on 08:11.

Does it complain about wrong block sizes ?

> Interestingly my sdb does not have any partitions since it's one
> big PV, and fdisk agrees with me on that. However the kernel
> seems to thing I do have a partition there and as a result LVM
> seems to get somewhat confused.

The partition code will look for tables. That bit is fine

The exact error would be good too
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