On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 15:04 -0400, Adam Gibson wrote:
Is this documented somewhere about using an entire disk (without partitions) is the wrong approach?
No idea. For one, Anaconda won't let you set it up that way, but obviously that's not documentation.
The information I used which prompted me to go this route is from the main how-to on how to initialize a disk for use with LVM at TLDP.org.
*sigh*. It sure would be nice if they'd fix that.
Why worry about partitions when you know that the disk will be 100% used for a single LVM PV.
Because it provides a way to tell what's there in a format which doesn't vary according to the content.