[pve-devel] move disk to LVM

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Thu Feb 16 07:50:18 CET 2017


> Default lvm behaviour seems to be to wipe signatures:
>     # Set to 1 to wipe any signatures found on newly-created Logical Volumes
>     # automatically in addition to zeroing of the first KB on the LV
>     # (controlled by the -Z/--zero y option).
>     # The command line option -W/--wipesignatures takes precedence over this
>     # setting.
>     # The default is to wipe signatures when zeroing.
>     #
>     wipe_signatures_when_zeroing_new_lvs = 1
> 
> So it seems to be a command line option in proxmox to not to wipe found
> signatures. Any reason for this decision?

I am not aware of any decision, and wipe_signatures_when_zeroing_new_lvs
is set to 1. Maybe we need to add the -Z flag?




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