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paulb787

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Registered: 2011-10-22

Posts: 49

Logical Volumes Not Creating w lvcreate? Install??

After following the arch raid guide i have gotten all tge way down to creating logical volumes and i get  this

lvcreate -L 20G VolGroupArray -n lvroot

/dev/VolGroupArray/lvroot: not found: device not cleared
  Aborting. Failed to wipe start of new LV.
  device-mapper: remove ioctl on  failed: Device or resource busy

here is vgdisplay

-- Volume group ---
  VG Name               VolGroupArray
  System ID             
  Format                lvm2
  Metadata Areas        1
  Metadata Sequence No  17
  VG Access             read/write
  VG Status             resizable
  MAX LV                0
  Cur LV                0
  Open LV               0
  Max PV                0
  Cur PV                1
  Act PV                1
  VG Size               97.75 GiB
  PE Size               4.00 MiB
  Total PE              25024
  Alloc PE / Size       0 / 0   
  Free  PE / Size       25024 / 97.75 GiB
  VG UUID               rP0ooH-VdCy-fMZM-sB0g-90zi-Gv2o-gBZWC1

pls help i am now stuck