> I would only recommend this if the drive is permanently attached to your > server. If there is any possibility of it getting moved to another system, > especially another OS, it is likely to appear "unformatted" and the other > OS will offer to create a partition table, etc, destroying the data. > The partition table, although otherwise useless for LVM (and a pain when > trying to align PPs to some lower lever boundary), does serve the purpose > of telling other PC operating systems that there is something there. This drive is to be permanently attached to the system so I don't think I need to worry about marking it as 8e in fdisk. Thanks all for your help. This clarifies a lot of things for me. ~k _______________________________________________ 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/
