Hi! Saturday morning, rain, girlfriend doing her hair, what else to do :P I tried to create an LVM volume group and run into something strange. - With fdisk I created a new Sun label, this renders you with three partitions. After changing slice 1 to type LVM you end up with this: Disk /dev/sdb (Sun disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 56065 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 0 121595 976711837+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/sdb2 u 121595 121601 48195 82 Linux swap /dev/sdb3 0 121601 976760032+ 5 Whole disk Create a PV with the command: pvcreate /dev/sdb1 root@medusa /]# pvcreate /dev/sdb1 Physical volume "/dev/sdb1" successfully created Now create a volume group and you get into the strangeness: [root@medusa /]# vgcreate test /dev/sdb1 Found duplicate PV 6DenBomNFcsol8rBNZh4eoWdSnXdS2y8: using /dev/sdb1 not /dev/sdb Found duplicate PV 6DenBomNFcsol8rBNZh4eoWdSnXdS2y8: using /dev/sdb3 not /dev/sdb1 Found duplicate PV 6DenBomNFcsol8rBNZh4eoWdSnXdS2y8: using /dev/sdb1 not /dev/sdb3 Volume group "test" successfully created Now when you type pvdisplay: [root@medusa /]# pvdisplay Found duplicate PV 6DenBomNFcsol8rBNZh4eoWdSnXdS2y8: using /dev/sdb1 not /dev/sdb Found duplicate PV 6DenBomNFcsol8rBNZh4eoWdSnXdS2y8: using /dev/sdb3 not /dev/sdb1 --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sdb3 VG Name test PV Size 931.46 GB / not usable 4.15 MB Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 238454 Free PE 238454 Allocated PE 0 PV UUID 6DenBo-mNFc-sol8-rBNZ-h4eo-WdSn-XdS2y8 This is the whole disk and it actually corrupts your partition/slice table and a new one will be created... [root@medusa /]# fdisk /dev/sdb Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new sun disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable. Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb (Sun disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 56065 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 0 121595 976711837+ 83 Linux native /dev/sdb2 u 121595 121601 48195 82 Linux swap /dev/sdb3 0 121601 976760032+ 5 Whole disk So I guess, DO NOT use LVM on sd?1 or you end up with possible corruption. Patrick _______________________________________________ sparc mailing list sparc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sparc
