[linux-lvm] lvm with gpt partitioning?
Josh Duncan
linux-lvm at msmd.net
Tue Oct 15 10:27:24 UTC 2002
Hi Luca,
this may sound stupid, but if there is a dos-compatibility partition, why
doesn't it show up in fdisk or parted?
I've included the info you mentioned below, as well as the info for sda...
--Josh
> looks like you have both a gpt partition and a compatibility dos-like
> one. i am missing some info (partition detection logs at boot) output of
> /proc/partition and lvmdiskscan. and i don't have an ia64 to play with
> any more. might try modifiyng the partition detection code in the kernel
> config
[root at one sbin]# dmesg|grep sd
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 71132960 512-byte hdwr sectors (36420 MB)
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
SCSI device sdb: 71132960 512-byte hdwr sectors (36420 MB)
sdb: sdb1 sdb2
/proc/partitions:
major minor #blocks name rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse running use aveq
8 0 35566480 sda 22661 39173 355842 99578 84426 763195 6796456 1992657 0 508375 2093808
8 1 1024000 sda1 506 17244 17830 1303 14 26 40 3178 0 1183 4482
8 2 17086318 sda2 4662 463 39842 22586 1604 5020 53800 1135352 0 35906 1158022
8 3 15360000 sda3 17426 19290 293722 67802 82808 758149 6742616 854132 0 480061 923424
8 4 2096128 sda4 3 0 96 23 0 0 0 0 0 23 23
8 16 35566480 sdb 285 8353 17020 25452 11 201 424 114 0 25533 25566
8 17 2096111 sdb1 9 135 288 6 0 0 0 0 0 6 6
8 18 17086464 sdb2 25 165 380 12 7 137 288 35 0 47 47
[root at one sbin]# lvmdiskscan
lvmdiskscan -- reading all disks / partitions (this may take a while...)
lvmdiskscan -- /dev/sda1 [ 33.92 GB] Primary [0xEE]
lvmdiskscan -- /dev/sda2 [ 16.29 GB] free whole disk
lvmdiskscan -- /dev/sdb1 [ 33.92 GB] Primary [0xEE]
lvmdiskscan -- /dev/sdb2 [ 16.29 GB] USED LVM whole disk
lvmdiskscan -- 2 disks
lvmdiskscan -- 2 whole disks
lvmdiskscan -- 0 loop devices
lvmdiskscan -- 0 multiple devices
lvmdiskscan -- 0 network block devices
lvmdiskscan -- 6 partitions
lvmdiskscan -- 0 LVM physical volume partitions
[root at one sbin]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4427 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 4428 35566479+ ee EFI GPT
[root at one sbin]# parted /dev/sda print
Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-34732.890 megabytes
Disk label type: GPT
Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags
1 0.017 1000.016 FAT boot, lba
2 1000.017 17685.874 ext3 lba
3 17685.875 32685.874 ext3 lba
4 32685.875 34732.874 linux-swap lba
[root at one sbin]# df -k
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 15118728 3718600 10632128 26% /
/dev/sda1 1023728 10720 1013008 2% /boot/efi
/dev/sda2 16817896 5019860 10943724 32% /home
none 505568 0 505568 0% /dev/shm
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