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From: Goetz Bock <bock@blacknet.de>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM configuration question....
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:48:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010624234800.B7709@dragon.blacknet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106241729370.4554-100000@bobak.net>; from mark@bobak.net on Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 05:30:27PM -0400

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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.
use fdisk to make one partition (/dev/sdc1) with the full capacity of
/dev/sdc and make it as LVM (type: 8e). Than use pvcreate /dev/sdc1
(this marks sdc1 as a PV) and add it to the VG as described in the
whitepaper/faq.

    Goetz.

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-24 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-24 21:30 [linux-lvm] LVM configuration question Mark J. Bobak
2001-06-24 21:48 ` Goetz Bock [this message]
2001-06-24 21:57   ` Mark J. Bobak
2001-06-24 22:32   ` Brian J. Murrell
2001-06-24 22:57     ` Goetz Bock

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