[linux-lvm] LVM and I2O

[Jan Niehusmann]

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:07:52AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Jan Niehusmann writes:
> > But mkfs and mkswap are tools that are normally only called manually by an
> > administrator who should know what he does.

> And pvcreate _won't_ be called by the same person?  I don't see any
> difference between overwriting your disk with mkfs, fdisk, or pvcreate.

Sorry, I didn't check which tools actually had problems with unknown partition
types. pvcreate, of course, is similar enough to mkfs to share the same checks.

Jan