From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Unable to create a physical volume on a whole disk
Date: Sat Apr 5 15:14:01 2003 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E8F471D.3030105@comedia.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001a01c2fb93$bdef8330$240b892c@pe1mhp.ampr.org>
Jan H. van Gils wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for reading this message.
>
> The following is the case, I would like to create a pv on a whole disk
> but pvcreate gives me the message that there is a "partition table" on
> the
> disk.
>
> I removed the partition table with "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb bs=512
> count=1"
> The fdisk command shows me that there is no partion table but pvcreate
> tells me
> different.
check if kernel has seen a partition during boot (cat /proc/partition)
in this case you either have to issue
blockdev --rereadpt /dev/hdb
or reboot
L.
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Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-05 10:52 [linux-lvm] Unable to create a physical volume on a whole disk Jan H. van Gils
2003-04-05 15:14 ` Luca Berra [this message]
2003-04-05 15:30 ` Jan H. van Gils
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2003-04-07 1:55 George Karaolides
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