i have tried to clear partition table with: i have tried many different things: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=10 # blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sda # sfdisk -R /dev/sda1 following these commands /proc/partitions does not show a partition on sda but pvcreate complains that there is. if this is a bug then how do i submit it? On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 12:58, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > rich turner wrote: > > > does anyone recognize this as a bug within lvm? > > > > there clearly is not a partition on sda (according to /proc/partitions) > > but pvcreate thinks there is one. if pvcreate examines only > > /proc/partitions for disk partitions and there is not a partition on a > > disk then why does pvcreate fail? i may not understand all of the > > underlying behavior of pvcreate but it appears to be failing when it > > shouldnt. is this a bug? > > > > If I remember your original message properly, the error you got from pvcreate > was that the disk "contained a partition table". This is _not_ the same thing as > the disk containing one or more partitions; there can very well be an empty > partition table on the disk. This may not be the problem, but if it is, using > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count=20 > > will wipe out any existing DOS-type partition table (or any other type of table > that resides at the beginning of the disk). If you've already tried this, then > I'd say there is definitely a bug happening. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
