Josh, if a device holds a partition, LVM assumes PC style. Can you remove the partition (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1k count=1) and use the whole device (pvcreate /dev/sdb) or go with PC style partitioning? Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 04:03:29PM -0400, Josh Duncan wrote: > Hi all, > > I hope this isn't a redundant question, I've tried looking through the mailing > lists with no luck: > > I'm having a problem setting up physical volumes on an ia64 machine running a > 2.4.18+lvm1.0.5 kernel. > > the disk is labelled using an "EFI GPT" disk label/partitioning arrangement. I > currently have two partitions defined, the first is 2gb and the second is 16gb. > I can do a pvcreate on the second, but not on the first. I've attached output > from parted, fdisk, and pvcreate below... > > any ideas? > --Josh > > ------ > fdisk: > ------ > [root@one sbin]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4427 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 1 4428 35566479+ ee EFI GPT > > ------- > parted: > ------- > [root@one sbin]# parted /dev/sdb print > Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-34732.890 megabytes > Disk label type: GPT > Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags > 1 0.017 2047.000 lba > 2 2047.000 18733.000 lba > > --------- > pvcreate: > --------- > [root@one sbin]# pvcreate /dev/sdb1 > pvcreate -- invalid partition type 0xee for "/dev/sdb1" (must be 0x8e) > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
