On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 19:48 +0300, Itay wrote: > > From: William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com> > [snip] > > [root at frodo ~]# pvdisplay /dev/sdc2 > > /dev/dm-11: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error > > /dev/dm-12: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error > > /dev/dm-13: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error > > /dev/dm-14: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error > > --- Physical volume --- > > PV Name /dev/sdc2 > > VG Name VGe1 > > PV Size 296.13 GB / not usable 0 > > Allocatable yes > > PE Size (KByte) 4096 > > Total PE 75810 > > Free PE 24098 > > Allocated PE 51712 > > PV UUID Ue56s5-nkax-csIU-6iBX-l4eb-hIJ1-nxJLgl > > We are about to exceed my knowledge, as I have never used USB for > anything other than thumb drives on MS Win*. I believe I asked about > partitioning? If you do > > sfdisk -l /dev/sdc > > what does it show? If you do a > > dd if=/dev/sdc2 of=/dev/null > [root at frodo ~]# sfdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 38913 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 * 0+ 254 255- 2048256 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sdc2 255 38912 38658 310520385 83 Linux /dev/sdc3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sdc4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty ** I note that the file system on /dev/sdc2 is 'Linux' and not 'Linux LVM'. This is what I got, eventhough I created it with parted /dev/sdc mkpart ... [root at frodo ~]# dd if=/dev/sdc2 of=/dev/null 12747056+0 records in 12747056+0 records out ** The above output is after letting dd running for few minutes; after that I killed the process because I was afraid it will take it too long. Thank you for your help, Itay