LVM creation methods

2012-07-20 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
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

Re: LVM creation methods

2012-07-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 05:35:03PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: 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

Re: LVM creation methods

2012-07-20 Thread Meike Stone
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

Re: LVM creation methods

2012-07-20 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
thanks it is very clear, yes, i am using the second disk just for storage purpose. so i am not worried about the booting since it is already been handled via /dev/sdb so no issues for me. Thanks both Meike and Darac On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: