<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>We have installed RHEL 4.7 on a single disk (actually two disk in hardware RAID). Part of it use regular partions and others LVM2 logical volumes. To my surprise, when running pvs or pvscan, the swap partition is shown has LVM2:</div>
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<div><font face="courier new,monospace"># pvscan</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new,monospace"> PV /dev/sda5 VG vgsys lvm2 [53,19 GB / 32,19 GB free]</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new,monospace"> PV /dev/sda3 lvm2 [65,21 GB]</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new,monospace"> Total: 2 [118,39 GB] / in use : 1 [53,19 GB] / in no VG: 1 [65,21 GB]</font></div>
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<div>But if I type fdisk -l /dev/sda, sda3 is a good old swap partition:</div>
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<div><font face="courier new,monospace"># fdisk -l /dev/sda</font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New">Disque /dev/sda: 72.7Go, 72746008576 octets</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New">255 têtes, 63 secteurs/piste, 8844 cylindres</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New">Unités = cylindres de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 octets</font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New">Périphérique Boot Start End Blocks Id System</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New">/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux</font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New">/dev/sda2 * 14 332 2562367+ 83 Linux</font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New">/dev/sda3 * 333 1899 12586927+ 82 Linux swap</font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New">/dev/sda4 * 1900 8844 55785712+ 5 Extended</font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New">/dev/sda5 * 1900 8844 55785681+ 8e Linux LVM</font></div>
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<div>I do not think this is a big problem but I am curious of why and could it be a problem?</div>
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<div>Thanks for your help,</div>
<div>Bernard</div>
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