Re: Anaconda issues with LVM when using an entire disk as a LVM physical partition

[Peter Jones <pjones redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 15:04 -0400, Adam Gibson wrote:

> Is this documented somewhere about using an entire disk (without 
> partitions) is the wrong approach?

No idea.  For one, Anaconda won't let you set it up that way, but
obviously that's not documentation.

>   The information I used which 
> prompted me to go this route is from the main how-to on how to 
> initialize a disk for use with LVM at TLDP.org.

*sigh*.  It sure would be nice if they'd fix that.

>   Why worry about 
> partitions when you know that the disk will be 100% used for a single 
> LVM PV.

Because it provides a way to tell what's there in a format which doesn't
vary according to the content.

-- 
  Peter