[linux-lvm] Setup for RAID1 with LVM
Wolfgang Weisselberg
weissel at netcologne.de
Sat Nov 17 09:04:06 UTC 2001
Hi, Brent!
Brent Harding (bharding at doorpi.net) wrote 34 lines:
> >>>>>> "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.
> >For whole disk devices only the partition table must be erased, which
> Can it be done to just a partition? I suppose raid devices are considered
> whole disks no matter what portion of various partitions they take up.
Yep, to the kernel a RAID looks like a complete HD.
83 is, BTW, the standard partition type for Linux, while fd
is the Linux auto raid (automatically Kernel-mounted RAID)
I guess you can simply erase the beginning of the RAID
(/dev/md0) or even make partitions on the RAID -- but I don't
know why you'd want that when you're going with LVM anyway.
-Wolfgang
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