[linux-lvm] using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM.

Terje Kvernes terjekv at math.uio.no
Thu Feb 7 21:43:01 UTC 2002


"Chad C. Walstrom" <chewie at wookimus.net> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:33:46PM +0100, Terje Kvernes wrote:
> >   fdisk is only able to address 128GiB, that's rather obvious.  if I
> >   make one partition, 
> 
> Why make a partition at all?  Why not just make a physical volume out of
> the whole disk?

  like I said, if I pvcreate the device itself, /dev/hdc,
  /proc/lvm/global then returns the size as 134152192KB.  so it's
  still off.  :/

-- 
Terje




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