[ale] If you own (almost) ANY HDD, repartition with 4k boundaries

[James Sumners]

GPT does not prevent LVM from working. I have two drives in my DVR,
advanced format drives, configured with GPT and joined up into an LVM. I
did, however, create the LVM group with the basic tools and not a GUI.

On Thursday, January 17, 2013, Jim Lynch wrote:

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> After reading this very interesting thread, I decided to format a new
> drive I installed a while back but never got around to using. I'm planning
> on using the disk as an off site storage device. Anyway I created a gpt
> since it's a 500 Gb drive and rather new and would benefit from 4K
> boundries.  I attempted to use the lvm gui (system-config-lvm) to format
> the drive but it didn't find the drive.  It just didn't show up.  I don't
> use lvm often enough to navigate creating lvm disks from the command line
> so I didn't even try.
>
> I went back and used gparted to generate a msdos partition table. Now the
> gui works fine.  I guess the gui hasn't caught up with the new guid
> partition tables.  I tried to create the gpt via gdisk and gparted but the
> lvm gui didn't find it either way.  And, yes I did create partitons on the
> new partition table, but there wasn't a format for lvm in the list so I
> left them unformatted.
>
> This is on a Mint 13 system.
>
> Just an observation for what it's worth.
>
> Jim.
>


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