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From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
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Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Unable to create a physical volume on a whole disk
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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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