"Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
> > as for handling un-partitioned drives for PVs, it's gonna be hard (at least in > > diskdrake) > > How come? un-partitioned drives for PVs have a magic (signature) not > unlike PVs in partitions. the pb is the architecture of diskdrake won't accept un-partitionned drives. having those drives ignored would be easy... > In fact fsedit.pm already lists it: > > 0x8e, 0, "HM\1\0" > > Maybe if I patch up drakx to get past this point by recognizing disks > used as LVM PVs I will discover just why diskdrake would be such a > problem. My guess is that right now, diskdrake sees an LVM disk > (un-partitioned) as free and tries to use it. well, not quite so. It tries to detect the partition table format. Making it ignore those drives would not be hard.
