Fdisk is reporting "There is a valid AIX label on this disk."

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Issue

  • Fdisk reports:
# fdisk -l /dev/sdf

        There is a valid AIX label on this disk.
        Unfortunately Linux cannot handle these
        disks at the moment.  Nevertheless some
        advice:
        1. fdisk will destroy its contents on write.
        2. Be sure that this disk is NOT a still vital
           part of a volume group. (Otherwise you may
           erase the other disks as well, if unmirrored.)
        3. Before deleting this physical volume be sure
           to remove the disk logically from your AIX
           machine.  (Otherwise you become an AIXpert).

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • VMware

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