Failure creating volume group, error -4010

[rdgreen]

This is a new SLES v11 390x install. I am attempting to create a logical volume group. the create fails with; Failure occurred during the following action: Creating volume group VolumeGrp1 from /dev/dasdb ... System error code was: -4010. The volume group consists of 14 3390-9 volumes with two logical volumes (15GB and 70 GB) as EXT3.

Keep in mind everything in Linux is done with partitions, not drives. A partition may be a whole drive or partial drive, but is a partition none the less. You have to run dasdfmt to partition your drives.

So, to answer your question - Make sure you run dasdfmt on the volumes you want to use in the volume group. Select each drive, ask that it be formatted to get /dev/dasdb1, /dev/dasdc1, etc. Then add dasdb1, dasdc1, etc. to the volume group. When the partitioning runs, it will run dasdfmt to create the partitions on the drives, then will use those partitions in your volume group.

Reply back if you still have problems.
Bob Green