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sudo vgs
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No volume groups found
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sudo fdisk -l
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Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8b8e8b8e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 64 512000 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 5953 9730 30336001 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 64 5953 47300608 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 5953 9600 29296640 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 9601 9730 1038336 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition table entries are not in disk order
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$ sudo pvcreate /dev/sda1
Physical volume "/dev/sda1" successfully created
$ sudo pvcreate /dev/sda2
dev_is_mpath: failed to get device for 8:2
dev_is_mpath: failed to get device for 8:2
Device /dev/sda2 not found (or ignored by filtering).
$ sudo pvcreate /dev/sda3
Can't open /dev/sda3 exclusively. Mounted filesystem?
$ sudo pvcreate /dev/sda5
dev_is_mpath: failed to get device for 8:5
Physical volume "/dev/sda5" successfully created
$ sudo pvcreate /dev/sda6
dev_is_mpath: failed to get device for 8:6
Can't open /dev/sda6 exclusively. Mounted filesystem?
I'm thiking /dev/sda1 is the boot partition but it forms a physical volume successfully. However, I would have thought that /dev/sda3 is the root partition so I thought it would be mounted already. Do I need to unmount it to make a physical volume from it? /dev/sda6 is presumably swap space. From what I have read, this could have its own partition or share an existing logical volume. However it is not clear to me why I was unable to form a physical volume from it. Does it also need to be unmounted?
Many thanks in advance,
OH