[linux-lvm] pvcreate can't use entire disk?

[Karl O. Pinc]

On 01/23/2006 04:35:16 PM, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 05:26:00PM -0500, f-lvm at media.mit.edu wrote:

> > (at which point I would have zeroed it and tried again)
> 
> Did you try that?

I would find this a bit annoying.  I just put a 300GB disk into
an old slow machine and found it took over 12 hours to zero.

While zeroing the early part of the disk would probably be
adequate, it'd be nice if there was some sort of force option.


Karl <kop at meme.com>
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