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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 21:15:08 -0600
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Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Re: partition table read incorrectly
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On Oct 04, 2001  01:39 +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> > But why do you call it wrong?
> 
> I deleted all partitions with fdisk so I expect none to be there.
> fdisk shows none, but the kernel does.

The safest thing to do at this point is to simply delete the whole thing:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb count=1

then pvcreate the disk again.  If you already have data on the PV in
question, you can "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1 seek=510 count=2"
to remove only the partition signature.

Note also that it is a bug in LVM that it did not zero the whole thing
in the first place.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger  \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
                 \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
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