On Thu, Jun 9th, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Mark Post wrote: > To be honest, I don't think LVM itself cares about the partition type. > pvcreate will use any partition you point it at.
This is unfortunately (almost unbelievably) true - with the notable exception of swap. Regardless of the partition type of a swap extent, pvcreate recognises the swap header and will query you before trashing it. Any other partition type - including those with valid filesystems and data - will be fair game. Shane ... (N.B. - not (re-)verified on z/) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
