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. <br><br>On Thursday, January 17, 2013, Jim Lynch wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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This is on a Mint 13 system.<br>
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Just an observation for what it's worth.<br>
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Jim.<span></span><br>
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