Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:55:41 -0600
From: AJ Lewis <aj@terrascale.net>
Well, LVM1 would complain about the partition table. I guess lvm2
does not, but that doesn't change the fact that neither would let you
write to a whole disk with a partition table on it. I can update the
howto to say that is the error to expect for lvm2 when trying to use
a whole disk with a partition table on it.
Thanks. I've also filed a bug report with Ubuntu (since that's the
distribution I tested this under) asking if the error message can be
made less misleading; we'll see if they fix it, push it upstream, or
whatever. (After all, running pvcreate on a disk with a partition
table on it---whether by accident or not---has to be the single most
common non-succeeding case; it'd be nice if the error message didn't
lie about it. If I hadn't been so cautious [and if I hadn't realized
that pvcreate's error message is wrong in LVM2] I've had just wiped
the partition table to begin with and never been mislead in the first
place.)
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