Re: [Hampshire] LVM query.

On 16/05/07, Vic <lug@???> wrote:
> > Please could someone explain this?
>
> > Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
>
> The dm devices appear to be disks, but they aren't - they're LVM
> creations. As such, they're not going to hold a partition table in the
> same way as a real disk.
>
> It's arguably a bug that "fdisk -l" even looks - but I'm not sure whether
> that's a bug in fdisk or in LVM...
>
> > I have Googled and it was said "... doesn't contain a valid partition
> > table" was normal and is nothing to worry about!
>
> In this context, I wouldn't worry.

Many thanks for the explanation Vic.

> What symptoms do you see?

The kernel see the linux disk but gives the error message:-
`ioctl failed: Invalid argument` and suggests running fsck which I do
but it makes no difference. I thought perhaps there was a bug in the
kernel but there have been at least 3 now but the box will only boot
from the original kernel.
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Clive Woodfine