>>>>> "jam" == John A Martin
>>>>> "Re: Trouble LVM: pvcreate to usb disk managed by udev"
>>>>> Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:57:31 -0500
>>>>> "Andy" == Andy Hawkins
>>>>> "Re: Trouble LVM: pvcreate to usb disk managed by udev"
>>>>> Wed, 4 Jan 2006 22:06:56 +0000 (UTC)
Andy> Hi, In article <[🔎] 87r77nk7nn.fsf@athene.jamux.com>,
Andy> John A. Martin<jam@jamux.com> wrote:
>>> As root:
>>>
>>> ,----[ pvcreate /dev/sdc ]
>>> Device /dev/sdc not found.
>>> `----
Andy> Doesn't this need to be done on a partition, rather than the
Andy> disk itself?
Indeed! Thank you very much.
jam> ,----[ Excerpt: man PVCREATE ] DESCRIPTION
jam> pvcreate initializes PhysicalVolume for later use by
jam> the Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Each PhysicalVolume
jam> can be a disk partition, whole disk, meta device, or
jam> loopback file.
jam> `----
jam> ,----[ Excerpt: LVM-HOWTO ] 11.1. Initializing disks or disk
jam> partitions
[[ Saying the same thing ]]
jam> `----
It seems that the following just work.
# pvcreate /dev/sdc1
# vgcreate vg1 /dev/sdc1
# lvcreate -l 1 -n test vg1
# mkfs.ext3 -L test /dev/vg1/test
jam> Maybe I misunderstand the above?
I still don't understand what the man page and HOWTO say about the
whole disk.
jam
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