From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:57:57 +0200 From: Goetz Bock Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM configuration question.... Message-ID: <20010625005757.D7709@dragon.blacknet.de> References: <20010624234800.B7709@dragon.blacknet.de> <20010624153217.K2299@pc.ilinx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oj4kGyHlBMXGt3Le" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010624153217.K2299@pc.ilinx>; from lvm@interlinx.bc.ca on Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:32:17PM -0700 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: List-Id: To: linux-lvm@sistina.com --oj4kGyHlBMXGt3Le Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jun 24 '01 at 15:32, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > Well, you can force pvcreate to use /dev/sdc, but you should not. >=20 > Why not? I thought for non-system (i.e. boot) disks this was > perfectly acceptable. It will gain you about a meg (one cylinder), but will cause all kind of trouble when you're not very carefyll. lilo, other OSes installers, user errors can easily cause the rewriting of a MBR. This will kill your PV, and the VG it belongs to. Some readers already had this happen, and it was QUITE a pain to recover the data on the affected VG (I'm not sure if everyone was able to recover their data, for sure some were (with the help of Heinz IIRC)) Goetz. --oj4kGyHlBMXGt3Le Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7NnB1f5srOMkjkQoRAgQfAJwI4vngWXgh+KWsRAMSkZvgZERD3wCcDK9o Mr6TsBdig4qZWTHgL+xL0H8= =AzkB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oj4kGyHlBMXGt3Le--