> > the problem is that we export a LV via iscsi to a remote box and become > > a scsi disk. so it is partitioned and utilized. then it does have > > partition on it. even it is exported to a linux box, u possibly will > > use /dev/sdx1 instead of directly use /dev/sdx, rite? > dunno if kpartx or some other partitioning tool could do it Give kpartx a try. It reads a dos partition table and creates partitions using device-mapper. You'll find kpartx in multipath-tools (device-mapper-multipath package on Red Hat). ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/dm/multipath-tools/multipath-tools-0.4.5.48.tgz Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/