# fdisk -l

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/cciss/c0d0'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 500.0 GB, 500051402752 bytes
256 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60556 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16128 * 512 = 8257536 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 60557 488331447+ ee EFI GPT

# df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 4.0G 1.8G 2.0G 49% /
none 299M 16K 299M 1% /dev/shm
/opt/xensource/packages/iso/XenCenter.iso
56M 56M 0 100% /var/xen/xc-install

# fdisk -l /dev/cciss/c0d0p1

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0p1: 4293 MB, 4293936128 bytes
255 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1027 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8160 * 512 = 4177920 bytes

This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1p1 ? 395160 448208 216435558+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1p2 ? 400983 640378 976730017 16 Hidden FAT16
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1p3 ? 1 1 0 6f Unknown
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1p4 6153 119429 462167897 0 Empty
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk order

# fdisk -l /dev/cciss/c0d0p3

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0p3: 491.4 GB, 491460402688 bytes
255 heads, 32 sectors/track, 117632 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8160 * 512 = 4177920 bytes

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 doesn't contain a valid partition table

# xe host-list

uuid ( RO) : 2df79ee1-a6b3-49aa-b272-22c13fbf4573
name-label ( RW): xenserver3.interno.local
name-description ( RW): Default install of XenServer

# xe sr-create content-type=user type=lvm host-uuid=2df79ee1-a6b3-49aa-b272-22c13fbf4573 device-config-device=/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 name-label="Local Storage"

723420df-5342-c398-5f7c-45d5116a6b71

# xe pool-list

uuid ( RO) : ee00c29a-64ac-fc8e-13a5-40a0308db86b
name-label ( RW):
name-description ( RW):
master ( RO): 2df79ee1-a6b3-49aa-b272-22c13fbf4573
default-SR ( RW):

# xe pool-param-set uuid=ee00c29a-64ac-fc8e-13a5-40a0308db86b default-SR=723420df-5342-c398-5f7c-45d5116a6b71