On Jan 23, 2006, at 5:02 PM, f-lvm@media.mit.edu wrote:
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:35:16 +0000 From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 05:26:00PM -0500, f-lvm@media.mit.edu wrote:"Device /dev/hdd not found." The disk is surely online: I canI would have -expected- pvcreate to complain about a partition table existingThe currrent internal structure of LVM2 makes that difficult. Add -vvvv to commands for more information like that. Invalid devices are filtered out at a low level in the libraries so tools such as 'pvcreate' never see them.If your disk has a partition table, then LVM2 insists you use thosepartitions to reduce the risk of accidents. Ah. That's directly contrary to the LVM2 howto at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/initdisks.html, which says, "If you get an error that LVM can't initialize a disk with a partition table on it, ..." etc.
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.
Regards, AJ
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