Markus Laire wrote:
On 5/13/06, Joep Blom <jlblom@neuroweave.nl> wrote:
One last question: Why can't I use "pvcreate /dev/sda" but have to use
"pvcreate /dev/sda1" (as the LV HOW-TO stated the former).
Hope you can help me out with this as well.
pvcreate man-page says that:
<quote>
For *whole disk devices only* the partition table must be erased,
which will effectively destroy all data on that disk. This can be done
by zeroing the first sector with:
dd if=/dev/zero of=PhysicalVolume bs=512 count=1
</quote>
Thanks, Marcus,
I have read that also but pvcreate (lvm2) worked nevertheless. I only
have the warning with fdisk that it encounters an "invalid flag 0x000 in
partition table 4 which will be corrected with write". So I simply don't
use fdisk on that disk and I don't know if this is harmful. But thanks
for reminding me.
Joep
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