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

Takahiro Yasui tyasui at redhat.com
Fri Dec 18 03:12:47 UTC 2009


malahal at us.ibm.com wrote:
> 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!

Oops, sorry for confusion. The sector number begins with 0,
so the sector 1 should have been written as the "second" sector.

Thank you for correction, Malahal.

Thanks,
Taka





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