Re: [Mactel-linux-users] strange LVM2 behaviour

[Tino K. <tin...@ti...>]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 15:51:54 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:32:44 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:

[...]

> > Here is a little demonstration of the problem:
> > 
> > $ pvcreate /dev/sda4
> >   Failed to write physical volume "/dev/sda4"
> > $ file -s /dev/sda4
> > /dev/sda4: data
> > $ pvcreate /dev/sda4
> >   Physical volume "/dev/sda4" successfully created
> > $ file -s /dev/sda4
> > /dev/sda4: LVM2 (Linux Logical Volume Manager) , UUID: An4eDdIHXaYqBD29ZUPOEX37oNsjCGk
> > $ pvcreate /dev/sda4
> >   Failed to write physical volume "/dev/sda4"
> > $ file -s /dev/sda4
> > /dev/sda4: data
> 
> Is there anything known about firmware "features" which prevent to
> read/write someting from a partition? Or can anybody suggest a better
> way to get a Linux with a sensible partition layout (/, /usr, /var,
> only /home will reside on a fat external USB hard disk) installed on
> the Mini?
> 
> Regards,
> Tino

Damn, I ran into this again. I played around with WinXP and tried to
reinstall Linux afterwards, but now pvcreate refuses to work again. I
never saw such strage behaviour before. Does anyone know if there is
something which prevents from certain data to be written to the disk?

Regards,
Tino