>Jan H. van Gils wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Thanks for reading this message. >> >> The following is the case, I would like to create a pv on a >whole disk >> but pvcreate gives me the message that there is a "partition >table" on >> the disk. >> >> I removed the partition table with "dd if=/dev/zero >of=/dev/hdb bs=512 >> count=1" The fdisk command shows me that there is no partion >table but >> pvcreate tells me >> different. > Luca Berra wrote : >check if kernel has seen a partition during boot (cat >/proc/partition) in this case you either have to issue > >blockdev --rereadpt /dev/hdb >or reboot Luca, I alleady tried a reboot and that didn't solve the problem. Any other suggestions ? Jan ---- With regards Jan H. van Gils Internet web-page http://www.Knoware.NL/users/janvg/ Internet e-mail address JanVG@Knoware.NL RIPE Whois JHG5-RIPE, 6BONE Whois JHG1-6BONE _______________________________________________ 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/