Question about LVM and fdisk. I present 8 iscsi LUNs to a Redhat 4 Enterprise server. I run fdisk -l, all the luns show up, and the sizes match. I create primary parititions on them, and change their types to LVM (8e).
I present 8 more luns. Now if I run fdisk -l, all the existing disks get rearranged. /dev/sdl appears to have moved to /dev/sdn, for example. I was told that this is normal behavior. When you change the type of a partition to LVM, the disk labels /dev/sd* become secondary, and LVM will rearrange them.
I am just trying to understand this concept, and why this happens. Any advice?
I present 8 more luns. Now if I run fdisk -l, all the existing disks get rearranged. /dev/sdl appears to have moved to /dev/sdn, for example. I was told that this is normal behavior. When you change the type of a partition to LVM, the disk labels /dev/sd* become secondary, and LVM will rearrange them.
I am just trying to understand this concept, and why this happens. Any advice?
