Dne 22. 09. 21 v 18:48 alessandro macuz napsal(a):
> fdisk correctly identifies the extended partition as 8e.
> I wonder which kind of data lvmdiskscan and pvs use in order to list LVM
> physical volumes.
> Does PVS check some specific metadata within the partition without just
> relying on the type of partition displayed by fdisk?
>
>
Hi
Yes - PVs do have header signature keeping information about PV attributes
and also has the storage area to keep lvm2 metadata.
Partition flags known to fdisk are irrelevant.
Regards
Zdenek