
Notes: the following sdb can also work fine as LVM without any partition! #

The following partx can directly output null/empty without any partition, why? LSB Version: :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarchĭescription: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4 (Maipo) PV UUID IsOr0G-UBTt-Qn1E-b圆R-dzvY-HqSE-bNiCaq Units: cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0ĭevice Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System Notes: here the sdb can work fine as LVM without any partition! # pvs Why does it return this 'failed to read partition table' shown below, instead of null/empty ? Will this 'failed' result always mean the device's partition table is damaged?


Partx fails to read the partition table of /dev/sdb on this system.
