-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bernard Fay wrote: > Hi, > > We have installed RHEL 4.7 on a single disk (actually two disk in hardware > RAID). Part of it use regular partions and others LVM2 logical volumes. To my > surprise, when running pvs or pvscan, the swap partition is shown has LVM2: > > # pvscan > PV /dev/sda5 VG vgsys lvm2 [53,19 GB / 32,19 GB free] > PV /dev/sda3 lvm2 [65,21 GB] > Total: 2 [118,39 GB] / in use : 1 [53,19 GB] / in no VG: 1 [65,21 GB] > > But if I type fdisk -l /dev/sda, sda3 is a good old swap partition: > > # fdisk -l /dev/sda > > Disque /dev/sda: 72.7Go, 72746008576 octets > 255 têtes, 63 secteurs/piste, 8844 cylindres > Unités = cylindres de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 octets > > Périphérique Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 * 14 332 2562367+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda3 * 333 1899 12586927+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/sda4 * 1900 8844 55785712+ 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 * 1900 8844 55785681+ 8e Linux LVM > > I do not think this is a big problem but I am curious of why and could it be a > problem? Looks like the partition was previously used as an LVM PV. Just wipe out the first 1M or so and run mkswap again. Regards, Bryn. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjBO8sACgkQ6YSQoMYUY9470QCg4Akby6y0KkN6D4lulftnCZJA QE4AnjV9i1GHDvXVRVfzeGW4BlMlsHDe =OEkz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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/
