Bug 128380
| Summary: | pvcreate overwrites partition when wildcarding command line options | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Dave Horner <david> |
| Component: | lvm | Assignee: | Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | agk |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-08-31 13:33:39 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Always use 'echo' to check how the shell will expand what you type: echo pvcreate /dev/hda[9-11] gives pvcreate /dev/hda1 To understand this, read the man page for your shell eg the 'Pattern Matching' section of 'man bash'. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030922 Description of problem: I came across this during RH300 training. While initialising 4 partions using pvcreate I tried to cut corners by instead of doing : pvcreate /dev/hda9 pvcreate /dev/hda10 pvcreate /dev/hda11 pvcreate /dev/hda12 I attempted this instead: pvcreate /dev/hda[9-12] This then destroyed /dev/hda2 - without any warning (and it was mounted on /usr !) After rebuilding the system I repeated the issue using variations of this command line. Results below: pvcreate /dev/hda[9-10] [root@station1 RPMS]# pvcreate /dev/hda[9-10] pvcreate -- invalid physical volume name "/dev/hda[9-10]" pvcreate /dev/hda[9-11] destroyed /dev/hda1 pvcreate /dev/hda[9-12] destroyed /dev/hda2 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): lvm-1.0.3-15 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: shown in description Actual Results: shown in description Expected Results: shown in description Additional info: shown in description