sorry, my mistake. i copied it from many different attempt sources. all references should be sda not sda1 because the pv will be located on the entire disk not a partition On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 12:33, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 12:21:45PM -0700, Rich Turner wrote: > > the entire disk /dev/sda1 > > # pvcreate -ff -v /dev/sda1 > > pvcreate --device "/dev/sda" has a partition table > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=10 > > # blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sda > > # sfdisk -R /dev/sda1 > > Confusion between > /dev/sda and > /dev/sda1 ? > > Alasdair > -- > agk@uk.sistina.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/