On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 02:26:59PM -0500, Murthy Kambhampaty wrote: > On Sat Nov 16 20:07:02 2002, Goetz Bock linux-lvm@sistina.com wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 16 '02 at 14:46, david@lownoisefloor.com wrote: > >> I am using entire disks. > >Bad idea, why don't you want to at last put a partition table on it, > >with one big partition, that uses the whole disk ... or is this what you > >had in mind? > Err, is there a reason why this is a bad idea? Well, the only thing i can think of is that the partition must be of type 8e (Linux LVM), while the whole disk only has the LVM label on it - so if you aren't paying attention, you could (possibly) forget that the disk is being used by LVM and write over it. fdisk does not recognize that a whole disk has an LVM label on it AFAIK. > (The HOWTO actually gives the example of > # pvcreate /dev/hdb > without saying this is a bad idea; or a good one, for that matter.) > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- AJ Lewis Sistina Software Inc. Voice: 612-638-0500 1313 5th St SE, Suite 111 E-Mail: lewis@sistina.com Minneapolis, MN 55414 http://www.sistina.com Current GPG fingerprint = FE77 4B43 6A9B F982 A731 02FA 2BF5 7574 294A AA5A Grab the key at: http://people.sistina.com/~lewis/gpg.html or one of the many keyservers out there... -----Begin Obligatory Humorous Quote---------------------------------------- Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... -----End Obligatory Humorous Quote------------------------------------------
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