On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 16:11 +0100, John Haxby wrote: > > 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. >
So, when its time to expand, how does one modify the partition table safely? > jch > > > (*) Yes, I know it's broken, but that's no consolation when it's eaten > your thesis. > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
