Hi Jan, > 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. > gw:/dev# pvcreate /dev/hdb > pvcreate -- device "/dev/hdb" has a partition table I think what teh message from pvcreate means is that this is a device with a partition table, and pvceate isn't supposed to be used on such devices with partition tables, but only on partition-like devices. I think pvcreate doesn't care whether the partition table is valid or not; it only cares about the type of device. I would suggest that, to use the space on a whole disk as a physical volume, you try: - Making just one partition of the whole disk space, with fdisk or other partitioning tool of your choice; that will normally be /dev/hdb1 - Making a physical volume in that: pvcreate /dev/hdb1 -- Best regards, | George Karaolides Planitis Communications Ltd., | | tel: +357 22 45 65 00 Office 102, 11 Florinis Street, | | web: www.planitis.net Nicosia CY 1065, | | email: george.karaolides@planitis.net Republic of Cyprus. | _______________________________________________ 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/
