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Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 15:32:17 -0700
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM configuration question....
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On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 11:48:00PM +0200, Goetz Bock wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jun 24 '01 at 17:30, Mark J. Bobak wrote:
> > # pvcreate /dev/sdc
> > pvcreate -- device "/dev/sdc" has a partition table
> > 
> > So, can anyone offer me a clue as to the problem?
> Well, you can force pvcreate to use /dev/sdc, but you should not.

Why not?  I thought for non-system (i.e. boot) disks this was
perfectly acceptable.

b.