From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] pvcreate error
Date: Mon Jan 6 17:18:02 2003 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030107000654.A10176@sistina.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1041637712.1854.10.camel@rich-laptop>; from rturner@san.rr.com on Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 03:48:31PM -0800
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 03:48:31PM -0800, richard turner wrote:
> i am trying to create a pv on an entire disk /dev/hdb with the following
> command:
> pvcreate -ff -y /dev/hdb
>
> it returns the following error:
> pvcreate --device "/dev/hdb" has a partition table
>
> fdisk, sfdisk and all other methods prove there is not a partition table
> on /dev/hdb
>
> using lvm 1.0.1 with mandrake8.2 kernel 2.4.18-6
>
> what is causing pvcreate to think i have a partition table on /dev/hdb?
The identifier at the end of the first sector.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb bs=512 count=1
should make pvcreate happy ;)
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-06 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-03 17:47 [linux-lvm] pvcreate error richard turner
2003-01-06 17:18 ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen [this message]
2003-01-06 18:03 ` richard turner
2003-01-07 12:46 ` richard turner
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2003-01-06 12:55 richard turner
2002-01-14 14:00 Csuk, Ferenc
2002-01-14 14:25 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-01-15 4:13 ` Yves Alloyer
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