i am trying to create a pv on an entire disk /dev/hdb with the following command: pvcreate -ff -y /dev/hdb it returns the following error: pvcreate --device "/dev/hdb" has a partition table fdisk, sfdisk and all other methods prove there is not a partition table on /dev/hdb using lvm 1.0.1 with mandrake8.2 kernel 2.4.18-6 what is causing pvcreate to think i have a partition table on /dev/hdb? _______________________________________________ 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/