topic Re: pvcreate -b in Operating System - HP-UX

pvcreate -b

Zafar A. Mohammed — Mon, 06 Aug 2001 20:24:54 GMT

After reading the manpages also I am not fully understand the -b(lowercase) option.
Help will be appreciated.

Re: pvcreate -b

melvyn burnard — Mon, 06 Aug 2001 20:32:58 GMT

This option is used if you want to specify (and have the information) where there are known bad blocks on the physical media.
I don't know of anyone actually using this in the recent past.

Re: pvcreate -b

Magdi KAMAL — Mon, 06 Aug 2001 20:41:43 GMT

Hi Zafar,

-b option is for bad blocks.

I don't use it.

Magdi

Re: pvcreate -b

Sundar_7 — Thu, 09 Aug 2001 09:53:46 GMT

Hi,

If U have known bad blocks in the disk

then U can basically list down the bad blocks

one by one so that those blocks will be marked

bad and wont be used..