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* [linux-lvm] pvcreate -- extended partition "/dev/hda10" doesn't exist
@ 1999-06-21  2:22 Udo Weber
  1999-06-21  7:13 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Udo Weber @ 1999-06-21  2:22 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: linux-lvm

Hi LVM-specialists,

I'm new here the Linux-LVM-array. This means I was downloading all
needed software+patches, compiled successfull and also installed without
erors on my IBM-Thinkpad (300 MHz PII, 128 MB RAM, 8GByte HD).
I have all my LINUX-stuff on several extended partitions.

Now at first some generally questions (I don't  found an answer for this
in the docu):
Is it possible to create a PV on a extended partion or do I need only
primary partions ?
I think pvcreate writes something at the top of the physical volume (
whole PV or partion).
Do that works well with other OS-formated parts of the same hdisk ?

If the first question is no, forget the rest of this mail!
If it should works please help. Here are all infos related to my
problem:

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Welcome to SuSE Linux 6.1 (i386) - Kernel 2.2.10 (tty4).

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* Re: [linux-lvm] pvcreate -- extended partition "/dev/hda10" doesn't exist
  1999-06-21  2:22 [linux-lvm] pvcreate -- extended partition "/dev/hda10" doesn't exist Udo Weber
@ 1999-06-21  7:13 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Heinz Mauelshagen @ 1999-06-21  7:13 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: udo.weber; +Cc: mge, linux-lvm


Hi.

> 
> I'm new here the Linux-LVM-array. This means I was downloading all
> needed software+patches, compiled successfull and also installed without
> erors on my IBM-Thinkpad (300 MHz PII, 128 MB RAM, 8GByte HD).
> I have all my LINUX-stuff on several extended partitions.
> 

Great.

> Now at first some generally questions (I don't  found an answer for this
> in the docu):
> Is it possible to create a PV on a extended partion or do I need only
> primary partions ?

You can use primary _and_ extended partitions.

> I think pvcreate writes something at the top of the physical volume (
> whole PV or partion).
> Do that works well with other OS-formated parts of the same hdisk ?
> 

Yes, it does.

If you use a partition with pvcreate, you have to set the partition identifier
to 0xfe with fdisk before.
pvcreate checks for this partition identifier to avoid to overwrite _non_
LVM partitions by accident 8*)

<SNIP>

Regards,
Heinz
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