pvcreate

[Patrick Dupre]

Hello,

I guess that you are write.
I forgot that point.
I repartitioned again, I did not get the message and pvscan gave me
the right size.
The only active partition was probably a swap partition that I finally
desactived.

Thank.

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> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 at 5:03 PM
> From: "Roberto Ragusa" <mail at robertoragusa.it>
> To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Re: pvcreate
>
> On 03/08/2015 12:09 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Using fdisk I create a partition of 59Go (/dev/sdxy)
> > Then I do a pvcreate /dev/sdxy)
> > pvdisplay says:
> > /dev/sdb7" is a new physical volume of "38.00 GiB"
> > 
> > This probably results from a previous partitioning.
> 
> Maybe you just repartitioned and missed the fdisk message
> about the fact that the new partition table will be
> active at next reboot. It happens if some other partitions
> on the disk are in use.
> In that case 38GiB is the size of the old /dev/sdb7.
> Be careful.
> 
> Use "cat /proc/partitions" to display how the disk is seen
> by the system in this moment.
> 
> -- 
>    Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it
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