[linux-lvm] lvm with gpt partitioning?
Josh Duncan
linux-lvm at msmd.net
Tue Oct 15 10:43:26 UTC 2002
Hi Heinz,
I don't think I can remove the partition, because the EFI firmware needs the
first partition of the disk to be vfat to boot from that disk. That's not a
concern for this issue right now, but it will be when I want to have my / be an
LVM volume mirrored across sda/sdb.
--Josh
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 09:02:53AM +0200, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
>
> Josh,
>
> if a device holds a partition, LVM assumes PC style.
>
> Can you remove the partition (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1k count=1)
> and use the whole device (pvcreate /dev/sdb) or go with PC style partitioning?
>
> Regards,
> Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 04:03:29PM -0400, Josh Duncan wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I hope this isn't a redundant question, I've tried looking through the mailing
> > lists with no luck:
> >
> > I'm having a problem setting up physical volumes on an ia64 machine running a
> > 2.4.18+lvm1.0.5 kernel.
> >
> > the disk is labelled using an "EFI GPT" disk label/partitioning arrangement. I
> > currently have two partitions defined, the first is 2gb and the second is 16gb.
> > I can do a pvcreate on the second, but not on the first. I've attached output
> > from parted, fdisk, and pvcreate below...
> >
> > any ideas?
> > --Josh
> >
> > ------
> > fdisk:
> > ------
> > [root at one sbin]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
> >
> > Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4427 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/sdb1 1 4428 35566479+ ee EFI GPT
> >
> > -------
> > parted:
> > -------
> > [root at one sbin]# parted /dev/sdb print
> > Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-34732.890 megabytes
> > Disk label type: GPT
> > Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags
> > 1 0.017 2047.000 lba
> > 2 2047.000 18733.000 lba
> >
> > ---------
> > pvcreate:
> > ---------
> > [root at one sbin]# pvcreate /dev/sdb1
> > pvcreate -- invalid partition type 0xee for "/dev/sdb1" (must be 0x8e)
> >
> >
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