From: "Markus Laire" <malaire@gmail.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Cc: mingz@ele.uri.edu
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] problem when creating a volumegroup on an external drive
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 13:20:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <67d53e40605130320t50e4e912lcb2a2ea3d6773bc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4465967E.6090206@neuroweave.nl>
On 5/13/06, Joep Blom <jlblom@neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> One last question: Why can't I use "pvcreate /dev/sda" but have to use
> "pvcreate /dev/sda1" (as the LV HOW-TO stated the former).
> Hope you can help me out with this as well.
pvcreate man-page says that:
<quote>
For *whole disk devices only* the partition table must be erased,
which will effectively destroy all data on that disk. This can be done
by zeroing the first sector with:
dd if=/dev/zero of=PhysicalVolume bs=512 count=1
</quote>
--
Markus Laire
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-13 10:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-12 11:28 [linux-lvm] problem when creating a volumegroup on an external drive Joep Blom
2006-05-12 12:16 ` Patrick Caulfield
2006-05-12 14:50 ` Joep Blom
2006-05-12 14:57 ` Klaus Strebel
2006-05-12 22:25 ` Joep Blom
2006-05-13 1:49 ` Ming Zhang
2006-05-13 8:19 ` Joep Blom
2006-05-13 10:20 ` Markus Laire [this message]
2006-05-14 21:42 ` Joep Blom
2006-05-15 8:42 ` Markus Laire
2006-05-15 9:14 ` Joep Blom
2006-05-13 15:42 ` Ming Zhang
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