Bug 160048
| Summary: | Disk /dev/sdah doesn't contain a valid partition table | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Kieran Foley <kieran.foley> |
| Component: | lvm | Assignee: | Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | agk, dwysocha, mbroz |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | sparc | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-03-17 16:14:27 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Kieran Foley
2005-06-10 14:09:05 UTC
No, you can't write a partiton table onto the PVs created on the new disks. If you do so, you overwrite LVM metadata there. LVM supports creating PVs on whole devices without any partions on them. If you want them partioned, you need to remove the LVs allocated to those PVs+ and remove the PVs from the VG(s) they belong to. Then you should zeor the first sector of each drive (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1), setup partitions, recreate PVs, add them to VG(s) and recreate LVs. Thanks but I do not want to partition the drives. I am already using the whole device. I do not want to change the partition table, all I want to do is get rid of the messages "doesn't contain a valid partition table" each time I execute fdisk. Is it safe for me to just do fdisk and option w given that I created the PVs on whole devices? O are you telling me I need to recreate the PVs? Thanks Writing a partition table with fdisk is not recomended, because it will destroy LVM metadata (comparable to overwriting a partition table *while* partitions are in use). You either ignore the fdisk messages or need to follow the above procedure (remove LVs, remove PVs from VG(s), write (empty) partition table, (re)create PVs, extend VG(s), create LVs). REOPENED status has been deprecated. ASSIGNED with keyword of Reopened is preferred. This bug is filed against RHEL 3, which is in maintenance phase. During the maintenance phase, only security errata and select mission critical bug fixes will be released for enterprise products. Since this bug does not meet that criteria, it is now being closed. For more information of the RHEL errata support policy, please visit: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/ If you feel this bug is indeed mission critical, please contact your support representative. You may be asked to provide detailed information on how this bug is affecting you. |