On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 13:13 -0500, Adam Gibson wrote: > I created a second disk /dev/hdb as an LVM partition manually in FC4. > There are no partitions like /dev/hdb0, etc. /dev/hdb is the partition. You shouldn't do that. Instead, create a partition of type 0x8e, and make the PV on that. > When Anaconda first starts up it says that the disk is not initialized > and asks if you want to initialize it(which would have hosed my LVM on > that disk). > > As long as you answer no to the initialization when you get to disk > druid, it does show the LVM partition but you can not do anything with it. > > I am ok that it can not edit it because it does not expect the entire > disk to be a partition, but the scary part was when it said the disk was > uninitialized and asked to initialize it. Someone might accidentally > say yes to that not realizing that it is already initialized in a sense > that the entire disk is an LVM partition. The disk doesn't have a partition table, and detecting LVM metadata correctly is not simple. There's no good way for anaconda to handle this until somebody writes a real library to deal with LVM metadata, rather than trying to call out to to the executable for everything. Even then, creating a PV on a non-partitioned drive is the wrong approach. -- Peter -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list