On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 07:43:35PM +0200, Dieter Stüken wrote: > If the FS resides on the first partition it usually starts at some offset > of 63 sectors. So, if you simply erase the partition table and use hda > for the PV, you may use this space for LVM. Don't know, if this is big > enough, as I normally see "pe_start = 384". 1 sector is all it needs. The second sector is safe with ext2/ext3 unless you placed a bootloader there. Filesystem tools and utilities shouldn't interfere. I'm guessing other filesystems will behave similarly, but I haven't checked. > Is there any brief description around about how a PV header is organized, > or do I have to analyze the LVM source code for this? Start at the 'Metadata' slide here: http://people.redhat.com/agk/talks/LVM2-LinuxTag2006/ http://people.redhat.com/agk/talks/LVM2-LinuxTag2006/text28.html 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/
