From: "Bryn M. Reeves" <breeves@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] swap tagged as lvm2
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:01:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C13BCB.9090109@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ab53550809050655scab46a9lbea2abbe6c400681@mail.gmail.com>
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Bernard Fay wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have installed RHEL 4.7 on a single disk (actually two disk in hardware
> RAID). Part of it use regular partions and others LVM2 logical volumes. To my
> surprise, when running pvs or pvscan, the swap partition is shown has LVM2:
>
> # pvscan
> PV /dev/sda5 VG vgsys lvm2 [53,19 GB / 32,19 GB free]
> PV /dev/sda3 lvm2 [65,21 GB]
> Total: 2 [118,39 GB] / in use : 1 [53,19 GB] / in no VG: 1 [65,21 GB]
>
> But if I type fdisk -l /dev/sda, sda3 is a good old swap partition:
>
> # fdisk -l /dev/sda
>
> Disque /dev/sda: 72.7Go, 72746008576 octets
> 255 t�tes, 63 secteurs/piste, 8844 cylindres
> Unit�s = cylindres de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 octets
>
> P�riph�rique Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 * 14 332 2562367+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda3 * 333 1899 12586927+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/sda4 * 1900 8844 55785712+ 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 * 1900 8844 55785681+ 8e Linux LVM
>
> I do not think this is a big problem but I am curious of why and could it be a
> problem?
Looks like the partition was previously used as an LVM PV. Just wipe out
the first 1M or so and run mkswap again.
Regards,
Bryn.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-05 13:55 [linux-lvm] swap tagged as lvm2 Bernard Fay
2008-09-05 14:01 ` Bryn M. Reeves [this message]
2008-09-05 14:26 ` Bernard Fay
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