From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <006501c1e57a$3cf5ff50$6501a8c0@bomoon> From: "bo" References: Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM tool limitation on using whole disk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue Apr 16 14:09:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Thanks for your reply. It should work if I make a LVM from HDD device, not using MD. However, using fdisk to make a big ONE partition for RAID then make it for MD. Then I should not wife this partition block out. I never try it yet but I think it is. Am I wrong? Any other suggestions? Bo ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Hawtin" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 11:47 AM Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM tool limitation on using whole disk > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, bo wrote: > > > Is it still TRUE? > > > > I am going to make several MDs on several whole disks, and then combine them > > as a > > volume. How could I avoid this problem? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Bo > > > > > > So wipe the partition table! > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/discs/disc1/disc bs=1024 count=10 > > That would do it... make sure you change the of= bit to be the right > device. Do it wrong and ... well thats your problem! > > James > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html >