[Pkg-xen-devel] (re-titled) partitions and LVs

[Ian Campbell]

On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 12:53 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 11:00:04AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > I would just add that the "whole disk" approach is what is tested and
> > works well with Debian Installer. The "individual partitions" approach
> > is more suitable / a better fit for the debbootstrap style of deployment
> > (at least IMHO) but is not tested with D-I.
> 
> There is no reason to use a partition table on the whole disk anyway.

You mean "...if you are using it solely as an LVM PV"? If so then yes.
In that case it doesn't make much difference if you choose to expose the
device as xvda or xvdaN, you just wack a PV on it either way.

Ian.
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