Re: creating a logical volume with a disk with existing data

["Jesús M. Navarro" <jesus.navarro@undominio.net>]

Hi, Mark:

On Wednesday 29 September 2010 18:11:50 Mark Allums wrote:
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> I would have to give that some thought.  I think that using LVM has to
> be done on a whole drive before anything else (don't do this---don't use
> it on an unpartitioned drive, you are just asking for trouble) or on a
> partition at the time of partitioning.

Like...?

I've been using whole unpartitioned hard disks for LVM physical volumes for 
ages without any problem, so what are the troubles you found with that?

Cheers.