On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 23:41 -0600, Adam Olsen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Ron Johnson<ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote: > > But doesn't fdisk only work on *physical* block devices? > > > > IOW, why fdisk an lv ? > > No, it works on logical volumes too. You still need to create > partitions even on the logical ones. > You don't "need" to, but you can if you want (although if you wish to access the partitions on the host that has the volume group and logical volumes visible you'll need to use kpartx since device-mapper devices are not themselves partitionable in the kernel). Regards, Bryn. _______________________________________________ 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/
