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Special Installation Procedures
3.10.3 LVM — Partitioning
After selecting ‘LVM...’ in the partitioning section, continue automatically
to a dialog in which to repartition your hard disks. Delete or modify exist-
ing partitions here or add new ones. A partition to use for LVM must have
the partition identifier 8E. These partitions are indicated with “Linux LVM”
in the partition list.
Figure 3.10: YaST: LVM Partitioner
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Repartitioning Logical Volumes
At the beginning of the physical volumes (PVs), information
about the volume is written to the partition. In this way, a PV
“knows” to which volume group it belongs. To repartition, it is
advisable to delete the beginning of this volume. In VG “sys-
tem” and PV “/dev/sda2”, this can be done with the command
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda2 bs=512 count=1.
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