2012/7/20 Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sir...@gmail.com>: > i was reading a document where a person has configured physical volume > and didn't use fdisk > he just directly created the partition by "pvcreate /dev/sda" > > and there are some documents which shows the utilization of fdisk and > converting sda1 to "8e" type which is LVM. > > so the question is what is the difference b/w creating it directly on > disk by pvcreate command and by using fdisk.
from the manual page of pvcreate: "pvcreate initializes PhysicalVolume for later use by the Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Each PhysicalVolume can be a disk partition, whole disk, meta device, or loopback file. For DOS disk partitions, the partition id should be set to 0x8e using fdisk(8), cfdisk(8), or a equivalent. For whole disk devices only the partition table must be erased, which will effectively destroy all data on that disk." So if you use a whole disk, it must be erased and have no partitions ... Nothing is wrong Meike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFNHiA_Ou=bnspntvkpxzfns-bfz2vvei0mhtkp47vtk1xd...@mail.gmail.com
