Re: 2.6 unknown partition table

[Shane Shrybman <shrybman@aei.ca>]

On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 11:49, Christophe Saout wrote:
> Am Mi, den 24.12.2003 schrieb Shane Shrybman um 15:52:
> 
> > I noticed this in the logs yesterday on 2.6.0-test11-mm1 and upgraded to
> > 2.6.0-mm1, but its still there. I use LVM on that disk and it is working
> > fine, (LV file systems are mountable and useable).
> >
> > Advice?
> > 
> > # fdisk -l /dev/hdg
> > [...]
> > Disk /dev/hdg doesn't contain a valid partition table
> >
> > [...]
> > vgdisplay  PV Name               /dev/hdg     
> 
> Everything is fine. You put your physical volume directly on the
> harddisk, not in a partition, so you don't have a partition table.
> vgscan recognizes the hard disk itself as LVM physical volume anyway
> that's why it works.
> 

Eeek.. I knew that! ;) Sorry for the stupid question and Happy Holidays!

> If you want to get rid of this, the next time you create a PV please
> create a partition first with fdisk, e.g. /dev/hdg1 with type 8e (LVM)
> and then pvcreate /dev/hdg1.
> 
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