what's the correct way to declare LVM on entire disk ?

[Mathieu Alorent]

Hi Michael !

Thanks for taking time to dig into this issue !

Le jeudi 16 décembre 2010 à 14:47 +0100, Michael Tautschnig a écrit :
> I finally got around to look into this and it might be that indeed it
> would be
> better not to declare this configuration as being "correct" - and go
> for another
> one instead. Could you give the following configuration a try?

[...]

> disk_config disk2
> raw-disk - 0 - -

[...]

> The problem with entirely leaving out disk2/sdb is that setup-storage does not
> know whether it may put a new disk label on that device or whether that would
> corrupt a disk setup-storage should not have touched. 
[...]

Ok, I agree with you.

> 
> Mât, could you please give this config another try? 

Of course ! I'll give it a chance in a few minutes :)

I admit, I should not update setup-storage, "raw-disk - 0 - -" is
already an understood syntax.

Bests
Mât