Re: [linux-lvm] Setup for RAID1 with LVM

[Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs math uh edu>]

>>>>> "FC" == Ferenc Csuk <Csuk> writes:

FC> [...]  when we start pvcreate /dev/md0 we get the following error:
FC> invalid partition type 0x83 for /dev/md0" (must be
FC> 0x8e). Unfortunatelly we can´t change it using fdisk.

The manual page for pvcreate says:

For whole disk devices only the partition table must be erased, which
will effectively destroy all data on that disk.  This can be done by
zeroing the first sector with:
 
       dd if=/dev/zero of=PhysicalVolume bs=512 count=1

 - J<