Re: lvmcfg and find-partitions

2003-12-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:03:01AM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: But LVM needs a 8e partition type. this is not true on powerpc/newworld nor on s390, non of them know about hexadecimal partition types. bastian -- Only a fool fights in a burning house.

Re: lvmcfg and find-partitions

2003-12-14 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Daniele Nicolodi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-12 14:13]: | The lvmcfg script depends on find-partitions to get a list of partition | where is possibile to build a volume group. find-partition as changed is | output in a (recent ?) update and now it doesn't report the type of | partitions but the

Re: lvmcfg and find-partitions

2003-12-14 Thread Daniele Nicolodi
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 04:51:11PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: you can write a work-around for find-partitions: 1. read /proc/partitions for disks 2. fdisk each disk, and grep for 0x8e Is fdisk supposed to work on all platforms supported by debian installer ?? Ciao -- Daniele -- To

Re: lvmcfg and find-partitions

2003-12-14 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Daniele Nicolodi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-14 17:20]: | On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 04:51:11PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: | | you can write a work-around for find-partitions: | | 1. read /proc/partitions for disks | 2. fdisk each disk, and grep for 0x8e | | Is fdisk supposed to work on

Re: lvmcfg and find-partitions

2003-12-14 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 05:51:17PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: | Is fdisk supposed to work on all platforms supported by debian installer ?? hmm. no. You can use parted to do this. Imho it's supported on all architectures. No, it is not. It lacks at least support for IBM Disklabels. Bastian

Re: lvmcfg and find-partitions

2003-12-14 Thread Daniele Nicolodi
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:19:00PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 05:51:17PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: | Is fdisk supposed to work on all platforms supported by debian installer ?? hmm. no. You can use parted to do this. Imho it's supported on all architectures.

Re: lvmcfg and find-partitions

2003-12-14 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-14 18:19]: | On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 05:51:17PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: | | Is fdisk supposed to work on all platforms supported by debian installer ?? | hmm. no. You can use parted to do this. Imho it's supported on all | architectures. | | No,

Re: lvmcfg and find-partitions

2003-12-14 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Daniele Nicolodi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-14 20:39]: | On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:19:00PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: | On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 05:51:17PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: | | Is fdisk supposed to work on all platforms supported by debian installer ?? | hmm. no. You can use