On 10 August 2010 15:44, Brian Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > should I partition the devices that are going to be totally LVM > controlled, or should I just do a pvcreate on the device itself? > > You can do a pvcreate on the device itself, but it can lead to trouble. Some software(*) will regard a disk with no partition table as uninitialized and will complain, sometimes even complain and helpfully corrupt the data on the disk.
It's better to be safe and create a partition table, just create one partition spanning the entire disk. jch (*) Yes, I know it's broken, but that's no consolation when it's eaten your thesis.
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