[linux-lvm] Re: brainfart: lilo'd a PV

[malahal at us.ibm.com]

Brian J. Murrell [brian at interlinx.bc.ca] wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 19:48 -0500, Takahiro Yasui wrote: 
> > 
> > Yes. The area begin with "LABELONE" is PV label,
> 
> Looks like the LVM developers foresaw my brainfart and left the first
> sector of the disk for me to bugger up without buggering up LVM.  :-)

Partition table uses the first sector (0th sector), so pretty much every
other software that uses labels avoid the first sector.

> > which is recorded in
> > the first sector by default.
> 
> Hrm.  Do you really mean "first" there or second, which is sector 1 if
> you start counting with 0?

He really meant sector 1!

You are just lucky!