From: "Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Cc: f-lvm@media.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] pvcreate can't use entire disk?
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:12:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1138057968l.16256l.8l@mofo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060123223516.GN4280@agk.surrey.redhat.com> (from agk@redhat.com on Mon Jan 23 16:35:16 2006)
On 01/23/2006 04:35:16 PM, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 05:26:00PM -0500, f-lvm@media.mit.edu wrote:
> > (at which point I would have zeroed it and tried again)
>
> Did you try that?
I would find this a bit annoying. I just put a 300GB disk into
an old slow machine and found it took over 12 hours to zero.
While zeroing the early part of the disk would probably be
adequate, it'd be nice if there was some sort of force option.
Karl <kop@meme.com>
Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-23 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-23 22:26 [linux-lvm] pvcreate can't use entire disk? f-lvm
2006-01-23 22:35 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-01-23 23:02 ` f-lvm
2006-01-24 14:55 ` AJ Lewis
2006-01-24 18:45 ` f-lvm
2006-01-24 18:53 ` [linux-lvm] how to use mirror function of lvcreate? Tom Callahan
2006-01-23 23:12 ` Karl O. Pinc [this message]
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2006-01-23 22:02 [linux-lvm] pvcreate can't use entire disk? f-lvm
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