help with adding drive cant locate

sohaib

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Hello , when I first added my 128 SSD drive it was showing as /dev/sdf then I run the following command to setup LVM

pvremove -f /dev/sdf
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdf bs=1024k count=1
pvcreate /dev/sdf1

After rebooting my server I can see my drive but its only showing 32gb where as the total size is 128GB ?

pve-manager: 2.3-13 (pve-manager/2.3/7946f1f1)
running kernel: 2.6.32-18-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 2.3-88
pve-kernel-2.6.32-16-pve: 2.6.32-82
pve-kernel-2.6.32-18-pve: 2.6.32-88
pve-kernel-2.6.32-17-pve: 2.6.32-83
lvm2: 2.02.95-1pve2
clvm: 2.02.95-1pve2
corosync-pve: 1.4.4-4
openais-pve: 1.1.4-2
libqb: 0.10.1-2
redhat-cluster-pve: 3.1.93-2
resource-agents-pve: 3.9.2-3
fence-agents-pve: 3.1.9-1
pve-cluster: 1.0-36
qemu-server: 2.3-18
pve-firmware: 1.0-21
libpve-common-perl: 1.0-48
libpve-access-control: 1.0-26
libpve-storage-perl: 2.3-6
vncterm: 1.0-3
vzctl: 4.0-1pve2
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.1-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 1.4-8
ksm-control-daemon: 1.1-1

Code:
root@NOD2:~# fdisk -l


Disk /dev/sdc: 450.1 GB, 450098159616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 54721 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: 0x0004c541


   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   *           1          66      523264   83  Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc2              66       54722   439024640   8e  Linux LVM


Disk /dev/sde: 128.0 GB, 128035676160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15566 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: 0x00000000


Disk /dev/sde doesn't contain a valid partition table


Disk /dev/sdd: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 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: 0x00000000


Disk /dev/sdd doesn't contain a valid partition table


Disk /dev/dm-0: 103.1 GB, 103079215104 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12532 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: 0x00000000


Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table


Disk /dev/dm-3: 11.8 GB, 11811160064 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1435 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: 0x00000000


Disk /dev/dm-3 doesn't contain a valid partition table


Disk /dev/dm-4: 317.5 GB, 317492035584 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38599 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: 0x00000000


Disk /dev/dm-4 doesn't contain a valid partition table


Disk /dev/sdf: 32.2 GB, 32212254720 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3916 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1d0bfe41


   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdf1   *           1        3916    31454208    7  HPFS/NTFS
 
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maybe a faulty SSD drive.
 
Do you have a pendrive attached to a USB port? It seems like /dev/sdf is a mass storage device.

It looks like your SSD drive is now listed as /dev/sde. You should create a LVM partition on /dev/sde and perform pvecreate afterwards.
 

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