Right on target Bryn. Your solution fixed it.
Thanks a lot,
Bernard
On 9/5/08, Bryn M. Reeves <breeves@redhat.com> wrote:
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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.
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