It turns out that /dev/sdb6 has also been initialized as a physical LVM volume. pvdisplay reports:
"/dev/sdb6" is a new physical volume of "97.56 GB" --- NEW Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sdb6 VG Name PV Size 97.56 GB Allocatable NO PE Size (KByte) 0 Total PE 0 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 0 PV UUID ZWv4zG-vNIR-pdvd-59Kw-TJ1F-xCsm-GWMf22 Can someone please step forward so that I can kick his ass for this? ** Summary changed: - Installer garbled unrelated LVM partition + [DATALOSS] Unrelated LVM partitions are initialized as PVs -- [DATALOSS] Unrelated LVM partitions are initialized as PVs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/380059 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs