I'm surpised! I installed 9.0 this morning with / as a normal ReiserFS partition, a swap partition and an LVM partition that spanned the remainder of the disk plus two other disks. I have the same set of partitions on my LVM volume (although the sizes are different - much larger disks) and had no problems. I only used the installer.
However at one time I did have a problem with LVM (must have been about Beta 3 or 4) which Pixel though he had fixed. It was OK for me afterwards, but maybe I did'nt test it well enough. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frederic Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 8:32 PM Subject: [Cooker] LM9.0: Setting up LVM > Hi > > I have been trying to setup LM9.0 using LVM with no success so far... > The box is a vanilla Dell 4100 with a 20Gb HD, 256MB Ram & P3 933MHz > > The first pbm is that / cannot be part of the LVM... (had no pbm having > / part of the LVM on RH (null) and Gentoo. > > Scenario A > ---------- > 1) ran fdisk /dev/hda from tomsrtbt and created > - a Linux extended partition (0x85) containing: > swap 700Mb > /boot 30Mb Linux native (0x82) > / 250Mb Linux native (0x82) > LVM remaining of space (0x8e) > 2) started the LM installer > 3) during the partitioning step: > - changed the / type (0x82) to ReiserFS > - selected the LVM "Add to LVM" and named it "lv1" > (a new tab "lv1" appeared alongside "hda") > - selected the "lv1" tab > - created the following for the LVM: > - /usr 5500Mb ReiserFS > - /home 3500Mb ReiserFS > - /opt 2500Mb ReiserFS > - /var 4200Mb ReiserFS > - /tmp 1200Mb ReiserFS > - clicked "done" > - Selected all partitions to be formatted incl. extra checks > for bad blocks for the swap and /boot > - made a prayer and clicked ok > > after a while I get an error that /dev/hda7 (/ in this scenario) cannot > be formatted... > Tried to go back and clear all the partitions to start again and I got > error msgs "lvremove failed" (or something equivalent). > Tried to backtrack evenmore until drakdisk was up shit creek. > > Rebooted under tomsrtbt and cleaned up all partitions then tried again > using only drakdisk from a clean disk, the bloody thing would not even > create the LVM (0x8e) partition... > Tried again with partioning from fdisk (tomsrtbt) and using same > partitioning as above with linux native type instead of ReiserFS, no > more success... > > So basically, If someone had success setting up LVM in LM9.0 using only > drakdisk or a combination of fdisk/drakdisk then I'd like to hear from > you :) > > I cannot believe it's not working so maybe I'm not using drakdisk > correctly. > > I've got a laptop using LVM from a RH (null) install and another box > using LVM from a Gentoo install (this box has 3 HDs) and both > installation worked 1st time. > > What is wrong with drakdisk or with me ;) > > Ideas, suggestions much appreciated. Thanks. > > /Fred > > > > >
