On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 00:31 +0200, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 10:46:45AM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > > Is it better to create 1 partition on a disk, and use that into the LVM, or > > have a blank disk, and use that in the LVM (if possible)? > > As long as we still need to live with partition tables, the advantage > of having 1 partition to create a PV on it is, that all related tools > (e.g. parted) *show* that there's an LVM partition. Another reason for creating a partition (perhaps a silly one, but I have found it useful) is that discs from different vendors (or even the same vendor) that are supposedly the same size often vary slightly, so I find it useful to create a partition slightly smaller than the total size of the disc. This is a little wasteful of space, but means that if I need to drop in a replacement disc that is slightly smaller than the original one, I can just copy an image of the old disc and it will generally work--otherwise I would have to fiddle around with whatever was near the end of the old disc. _______________________________________________ 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/
