From: "Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Can't mount or run fdisk on an existing logical volume, help!
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:05:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1248267906.14407.118.camel@breeves.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A66A30F.1020906@cox.net>
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 00:26 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-07-21 14:58, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:55:50PM -0700, Adam Olsen wrote:
> >> This pretty much sums it up:
> >>
> >> imgserv:/storage/# lvscan
> >> ACTIVE '/dev/storage/storage' [3.62 TB] inherit
> >> imgserv:/storage/# fdisk /dev/storage/storage
> >>
>
> But doesn't fdisk only work on *physical* block devices?
>
> IOW, why fdisk an lv ?
>
You're using it as the backing store for a whole-disk image, e.g. for a
virtualised OS instance?
Bryn.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-22 12:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-21 19:55 [linux-lvm] Can't mount or run fdisk on an existing logical volume, help! Adam Olsen
2009-07-21 19:58 ` Ray Van Dolson
2009-07-21 20:01 ` Adam Olsen
2009-07-21 20:07 ` Ray Van Dolson
2009-07-21 20:29 ` Adam Olsen
2009-07-21 20:35 ` Ray Van Dolson
2009-07-21 20:46 ` Sven Eschenberg
2009-07-21 20:47 ` Adam Olsen
2009-07-21 21:07 ` Ray Van Dolson
2009-07-21 21:24 ` Adam Olsen
2009-07-21 21:59 ` Ray Van Dolson
2009-07-21 22:09 ` Adam Olsen
2009-07-21 22:21 ` Ray Van Dolson
2009-07-21 22:43 ` Adam Olsen
2009-07-21 22:50 ` Ray Van Dolson
2009-07-22 13:08 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2009-07-24 1:38 ` Ron Johnson
2009-07-22 13:17 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2009-07-22 5:26 ` Ron Johnson
2009-07-22 5:41 ` Adam Olsen
2009-07-22 5:49 ` Ron Johnson
2009-07-22 6:01 ` Adam Olsen
2009-07-22 15:42 ` Sven Eschenberg
2009-07-22 16:49 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2009-07-23 23:42 ` Adam Olsen
2009-07-22 13:06 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2009-07-22 13:05 ` Bryn M. Reeves [this message]
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