I’m on partition disks, configuring LVM on a computer with 2 drives: /dev/nvme01 is the device I want to install in, SCSI2 is a storage HDD I do not want to format, I need the data.

What bugs me is ‘the partition tables of the following devices are changed’: both drives.

Am I going to lose data in the second drive, SCSI2, if I proceed? Should I physically remove the second drive instead?

ETA: thanks for your input

  • Gnugit
    15·
    6 months ago

    If you are unsure I would certainly disconnect the second drive just to be sure and have piece of mind.

  • stevestevesteve@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 months ago

    Likely changing the “active” flag or boot stuff, but as the other commenter says, if you aren’t 100% confident, disconnect the scsi

  • oo1@kbin.social
    1·
    6 months ago

    also if you “need” the data on SCSI.
    2 backups are recommended anyway, but esp before fdisking around with partitions.