itayf at nospammail.net spake the following on 7/10/2006 7:09 AM: > >> > [root at frodo ~]# sfdisk -l /dev/sdc >> > >> > Disk /dev/sdc: 38913 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track >> > Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, >> > counting from 0 >> > >> > Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System >> > /dev/sdc1 * 0+ 254 255- 2048256 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) >> > /dev/sdc2 255 38912 38658 310520385 83 Linux >> > /dev/sdc3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty >> > /dev/sdc4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty >> > >> > ** I note that the file system on /dev/sdc2 is 'Linux' and not >> > 'Linux LVM'. This is what I got, eventhough I created it with >> > parted /dev/sdc mkpart ... >> >> There's your problem I think. In my first post, I *guessed* that type >> needed to be 86. I'm sure 83 is NG - that's a standard Linux part. With >> fdisk and it's variations, there is a command to change partition type. >> Do that and select the one that shows LVM 986 I think). Write and >> (possibly) reboot or sfdisk -R /dev/sdc (which re-reads the partition >> info. If it shows *LVM* as the type, do you pvcreate, vgcreate, etc. and >> I bet you are OK. >> > > Had to wait until I came back to work and could reboot the machine. > Using William's instructions, modulus using 8e as Matt Hyclak pointed > out, seems to solve the problem. Everything seems to work fine: > lvcreation, writing files, etc. > > The only odd thing is in regard to the output of sfdisk. Note the > warning when 'sfdisk -l' is invoked without a device argument. > According to the man page this is a legitimate call that should produce > output similar in nature to 'fdisk -l' (which works as expected). > > <man> > The second type of invocation: sfdisk -l [options] device will > list > the partitions on this device. If the device argument is > omitted, the > partitions on all hard disks are listed. > % sfdisk -l /dev/hdc > </man> > Since programmers are notorious for putting off the documentation, it is very common to have man pages not completely in sync with a program. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!