From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] pvcreate error Message-ID: <20030107000654.A10176@sistina.com> References: <1041637712.1854.10.camel@rich-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1041637712.1854.10.camel@rich-laptop>; from rturner@san.rr.com on Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 03:48:31PM -0800 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon Jan 6 17:18:02 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com 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 ;) > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-