[linux-lvm] pb with pvcreate and partition tables

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

Julien,

hda16 == hdb?

Something with your /dev setup looks strange.


On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:15:25AM +0200, Julien Baboud wrote:
> hi,
> 
>  I use LVM with the 0.9 beta 7 on a SuSE 7.1 distrib and
>  i've encoutered a pb with pvcreate on a partition that is set to the
> LVM type (and was another type before, which is the source of the pb).
> Here is
> the output of the command i used :
> 
>  %pvcreate /dev/hda16 
> 
>  pvcreate -- device "/dev/hda16" has a partition table 
>  pvcreate [-d|--debug] [-f[f]|--force [--force]] [-h|--help] [-y|--yes]
>          [-v|--verbose] [-V|--version] PhysicalVolume
> [PhysicalVolume...]
> 
> 
> and the -f option show me the same output.
> 
>  I don't know if it's a pb with LVM or with fdisk wich i use to set the
> type of the partitions, but i would appreciate if any could tell me a 
> solution to correct this.
> 
> 
>  tanx.
>  julien, for ATIX
> 
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