At Tue, 6 Oct 2009 17:59:37 +0000 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > >pvcreate is the first step of creating LVM areas. If you're not going > >to use LVM then you don't need to pvcreate. However I recommend > >that you _do_. > > Yea I guess I was rather vague. I do plan to carve up the md device w/ lvm > once it's up. Historically I run pvcreate on lvm partitions for various reasons. > > Should I create an pvm partition on the md0 device? I was not even sure I could... If you are going to use the whole disk, there is no need to bother with partitions at all. Just pvcreate the whole device. > > Thanks! > jlc > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/