Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Or you could just do a "pvdestroy /dev/drbd/by-res/<name>" on the host... Sorry for the tofu.. Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> schrieb: >On 29/01/14 06:40 PM, Paul O'Rorke wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> a quick question. I have a DRBD resource that was once used as a >drive >> for a Linux machine that used LVM. I want to create a new VM (KVM >> based) that uses this resource. I can start the installation OK - >the >> installer 'sees' the 300GB drive (/dev/drbd/by-res/<resource>) but >when >> I try using the partition manager in the Debian (guest) installer it >> complains that there is already LVM data on there and it won't allow >me >> to use the drive without first cleaning up the LVM config on there. >> >> Is it possible to mount the resource in the host and use the command >> line LVM tools to 'clean' that up? I was thinking that maybe I could >> use *dd* to clone a new clean resource of the same size but that >seems >> silly. >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions for 'formatting' this resource so >that >> it looks again like a clean un-partitioned disk? >> >> Thanks in advance. > >Simplest would be to write zeros to the device; > >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/drbd/by-res/<resource> bs=4M > >If you know that the LVM metadata is at the first or end of the drive, >you can limit the dd to count=X or use of offset to hit the end of the >resource. > >-- >Digimer >Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ >What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without >access to education? >_______________________________________________ >drbd-user mailing list >drbd-user at lists.linbit.com >http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20140131/ebdc4cf3/attachment.htm>