Re: anaconda problem with local repo

[Louis Garcia]

I re synced my local mirror and I was missing file ../repodata/repomd.xml.
Everthing works now, Thanks.

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:04 AM George N. White III  wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 00:52, Louis Garcia  wrote:
>
>> Having many boxes to setup I decided to setup a local repo of fedora. I
>> setup vsftpd for this repo. I won't go into every step unless someone asks.
>> Either through pxe or netinst boot I'm able to boot into anacanda and setup
>> everything except the software packages. Everything in the software spoke
>> is empty. Then I point anaconda to another mirror and software spoke is
>> fine.
>>
>> How I populate my copy:
>> #rsync -av rsync://
>> mirror.utexas.edu/fedora/linux/releases/28/Everything/x86_64/os/
>> /srv/repos/fedora/28/x86_64/os
>>
>> I think I'm missing something in my repo.
>>
>
> Yes, see:
>
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring#How_can_someone_make_a_private_mirror.3F
>
>
>>
>> Thanks.
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Re: anaconda problem with local repo

[George N. White III]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 00:52, Louis Garcia  wrote:

> Having many boxes to setup I decided to setup a local repo of fedora. I
> setup vsftpd for this repo. I won't go into every step unless someone asks.
> Either through pxe or netinst boot I'm able to boot into anacanda and setup
> everything except the software packages. Everything in the software spoke
> is empty. Then I point anaconda to another mirror and software spoke is
> fine.
>
> How I populate my copy:
> #rsync -av rsync://
> mirror.utexas.edu/fedora/linux/releases/28/Everything/x86_64/os/
> /srv/repos/fedora/28/x86_64/os
>
> I think I'm missing something in my repo.
>

Yes, see:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring#How_can_someone_make_a_private_mirror.3F


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anaconda problem with local repo

[Louis Garcia]

Having many boxes to setup I decided to setup a local repo of fedora. I
setup vsftpd for this repo. I won't go into every step unless someone asks.
Either through pxe or netinst boot I'm able to boot into anacanda and setup
everything except the software packages. Everything in the software spoke
is empty. Then I point anaconda to another mirror and software spoke is
fine.

How I populate my copy:
#rsync -av rsync://
mirror.utexas.edu/fedora/linux/releases/28/Everything/x86_64/os/
/srv/repos/fedora/28/x86_64/os

I think I'm missing something in my repo.

Thanks.
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Re: anaconda problem

[Tim]

On Wed, 2017-03-22 at 09:58 +0100, François Patte wrote:
> I did not say that things are to be done manually (but I think that it
> is easier and quicker to things manually and I regret that this option
> does not exist for the installer), I said that the graphical
> presentation is illogical because the hierarchy is: partition>raid
> devices>lvm as you can see using lsblk:
> 
> ...[snip]...
> 
> So using the installer for partitionning, once you have chosen a mount
> point you can find a dropdown menu where you can choose lvm (default)
> or raid (or btrfs...) and keeping in mind that raid is before lvm in
> the hierarchy, you naturally choose raid and you cannot have lvm after
> that... This is not a logical way! 

I can see *some* logic in doing it in the reverse order (what do you
want, how do you want it, where will it go), but I'd still prefer the
direction of select hardware, divide it up, allocate mounts.  Either
way, I think the process has to go continually in the same direction.

The one thing that makes some sense out of doing it backwards, is that
you not having to continually name things.  Doing it backwards, if I
wanted /boot, /, and /home, it could name (label) the partitions boot,
sysroot and home, name the volume group Fedora25, et cetera,
automatically, as it goes along.  Doing it forwards, I'd pick a drive,
partition it, name its volume groups by hand (if using LVM), name its
partition labels by hand, allocate mount points.

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Re: anaconda problem

[Rick Stevens]

On 03/22/2017 01:58 AM, François Patte wrote:
> Le 22/03/2017 04:54, Ed Greshko a écrit :
>> On 03/22/17 01:17, François Patte wrote:
>>> I read the installation guide
>>>
>>> On this page:
>>>
>>> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/Create_Software_RAID-x86.html
>>>
>>> no mention on how to create  an lvm once your raid is created.
>>>
>>> (funny: the example given is /usr, maybe an overdose of Jack Daniel's!)
>>
>> Of course you are using an *old* version of documentation.  F18 was long
>> before F25 where we are now.
>>
>> As I already mentioned.  I did the install in a configuration which I
>> thought you wanted to end up with and I did so successfully.  It is
>> irrelevant to refer to obsolete documentation where what you want may
>> not have been possible.
> 
> I use the documentation I can access via the fedora sites and this was
> the installation guide I found.

Then you didn't look very hard. If you access the URL you gave in
your message and looked higher up in the left pane, you'd see the
documentation for Fedora 25 right there. In fact, here's the URL for
the English version of the manual section relevant to the installation
destination disks including how to set up RAID and LVM:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/25/html/Installation_Guide/sect-installation-gui-storage-partitioning.html

I'm sorry, but the installation guide has not been translated to
French yet. Translations are always an issue with Fedora, since its
release schedule is roughly every 6 months and they simply don't have
the bodies necessary to keep the translations up-to-date with that kind
of turn over.

Perhaps that's something you can do to contribute to the Fedora
project. I know the Fedora team is always looking for volunteers to do
translations of various kinds.

>> No need to do anything manually.
> 
> I did not say that things are to be done manually (but I think that it
> is easier and quicker to things manually and I regret that this option
> does not exist for the installer), I said that the graphical
> presentation is illogical because the hierarchy is: partition>raid
> devices>lvm as you can see using lsblk:
> 
> NAME  MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINT
> sdb 8:16   1 931,5G  0 disk
> └─sdb1  8:17   1 700,1G  0 part
>   └─md127   9:127  0   700G  0 raid1
> ├─fedora-boot 253:10 1G  0 lvm   /boot
> ├─fedora-var  253:4015G  0 lvm   /var
> ├─fedora-swap 253:20 4G  0 lvm   [SWAP]
> ├─fedora-root 253:0040G  0 lvm   /
> ├─fedora-opt  253:5040G  0 lvm   /opt
> └─fedora-home 253:30   600G  0 lvm   /home
> sda 8:00 931,5G  0 disk
> └─sda1  8:10 700,1G  0 part
>   └─md127   9:127  0   700G  0 raid1
> ├─fedora-boot 253:10 1G  0 lvm   /boot
> ├─fedora-var  253:4015G  0 lvm   /var
> ├─fedora-swap 253:20 4G  0 lvm   [SWAP]
> ├─fedora-root 253:0040G  0 lvm   /
> ├─fedora-opt  253:5040G  0 lvm   /opt
> └─fedora-home 253:30   600G  0 lvm   /home
> 
> So using the installer for partitionning, once you have chosen a mount
> point you can find a dropdown menu where you can choose lvm (default) or
> raid (or btrfs...) and keeping in mind that raid is before lvm in the
> hierarchy, you naturally choose raid and you cannot have lvm after
> that... This is not a logical way!
> 
>>>
>>> 2- Modifier (in French) means that you want to correct something wrong
>>> you have done before not to add some options...
>>
>> Sounds as if you should donate some translations to the anaconda team. 
>> (Wonder if there may be a difference in wording for French and
>> Canadian-French as well as other localized versions.)
>>>
>>> Moreover, as far as I have explored this "modify" feature, I cannot see,
>>> on the anaconda page devoted to partitionning, that a RAID will be
>>> created! I have to cross my fingers that the modification has been taken
>>> into account.
>>
>> I did the install a second time in order to document the steps which
>> absolutely work. 
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/m2csa23  are the screenshots with several important
>> items pointed out.
> 
> Should be in the official documentation

And it IS there if you look at the _current_ documentation. Fedora 18
is over four years old now and the documents do not reflect how things
are NOW. There have been seven MAJOR upgrades since F18 and a lot of
them have to do with Anaconda and installation in general (support for
additional filesystem types, easier encryption, etc., etc.)
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Re: anaconda problem

[Ed Greshko]

On 03/22/17 16:58, François Patte wrote:
> So using the installer for partitionning, once you have chosen a mount
> point you can find a dropdown menu where you can choose lvm (default) or
> raid (or btrfs...) and keeping in mind that raid is before lvm in the
> hierarchy, you naturally choose raid and you cannot have lvm after
> that... This is not a logical way!


I don't really understand the confusion.  I didn't have any problems
getting it configured with the way I think you intended, without using
any documentation.  I had not used anaconda in several releases since
I've been only doing upgrades via dnf.

I, of course, didn't design the anaconda GUI.  I am sure the folks that
did put some thought into it.  However, if you feel you have an idea
which is more logical and should be considered then probably writing an
RFE is in order.

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Re: anaconda problem

[Ed Greshko]

On 03/22/17 16:03, Ajay Singh wrote:
> STOP emailing so many more times I need to say remove me


You have chosen to be on a mailing list.  Nobody is mailing anything to
*you* but to the list you are part of.  If you have a problem with the
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Re: anaconda problem

[François Patte]

Le 22/03/2017 04:54, Ed Greshko a écrit :
> On 03/22/17 01:17, François Patte wrote:
>> I read the installation guide
>>
>> On this page:
>>
>> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/Create_Software_RAID-x86.html
>>
>> no mention on how to create  an lvm once your raid is created.
>>
>> (funny: the example given is /usr, maybe an overdose of Jack Daniel's!)
> 
> Of course you are using an *old* version of documentation.  F18 was long
> before F25 where we are now.
> 
> As I already mentioned.  I did the install in a configuration which I
> thought you wanted to end up with and I did so successfully.  It is
> irrelevant to refer to obsolete documentation where what you want may
> not have been possible.

I use the documentation I can access via the fedora sites and this was
the installation guide I found.


> 
> No need to do anything manually.

I did not say that things are to be done manually (but I think that it
is easier and quicker to things manually and I regret that this option
does not exist for the installer), I said that the graphical
presentation is illogical because the hierarchy is: partition>raid
devices>lvm as you can see using lsblk:

NAME  MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINT
sdb 8:16   1 931,5G  0 disk
└─sdb1  8:17   1 700,1G  0 part
  └─md127   9:127  0   700G  0 raid1
├─fedora-boot 253:10 1G  0 lvm   /boot
├─fedora-var  253:4015G  0 lvm   /var
├─fedora-swap 253:20 4G  0 lvm   [SWAP]
├─fedora-root 253:0040G  0 lvm   /
├─fedora-opt  253:5040G  0 lvm   /opt
└─fedora-home 253:30   600G  0 lvm   /home
sda 8:00 931,5G  0 disk
└─sda1  8:10 700,1G  0 part
  └─md127   9:127  0   700G  0 raid1
├─fedora-boot 253:10 1G  0 lvm   /boot
├─fedora-var  253:4015G  0 lvm   /var
├─fedora-swap 253:20 4G  0 lvm   [SWAP]
├─fedora-root 253:0040G  0 lvm   /
├─fedora-opt  253:5040G  0 lvm   /opt
└─fedora-home 253:30   600G  0 lvm   /home

So using the installer for partitionning, once you have chosen a mount
point you can find a dropdown menu where you can choose lvm (default) or
raid (or btrfs...) and keeping in mind that raid is before lvm in the
hierarchy, you naturally choose raid and you cannot have lvm after
that... This is not a logical way!

>>
>> 2- Modifier (in French) means that you want to correct something wrong
>> you have done before not to add some options...
> 
> Sounds as if you should donate some translations to the anaconda team. 
> (Wonder if there may be a difference in wording for French and
> Canadian-French as well as other localized versions.)
>>
>> Moreover, as far as I have explored this "modify" feature, I cannot see,
>> on the anaconda page devoted to partitionning, that a RAID will be
>> created! I have to cross my fingers that the modification has been taken
>> into account.
> 
> I did the install a second time in order to document the steps which
> absolutely work. 
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/m2csa23  are the screenshots with several important
> items pointed out.

Should be in the official documentation

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Re: anaconda problem

[Ajay Singh]

STOP emailing so many more times I need to say remove me

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 8:57 PM, Ed Greshko  wrote:

> On 03/21/17 19:59, Tony Nelson wrote:
> > On 17-03-20 19:42:20, Ed Greshko wrote:
> >  ...
> >> FWIW, I created a Virtual Machine with 2 32GB disks.  I then installed
> >> an F25 KDE based system using the netinst ISO.  I gave the VM 1.2GB of
> >> RAM.  For the disk configuration I requested RAID1 and
> >>
> >> /  of 14GB
> >>
> >> /boot of 1GB
> >>
> >> /var of 11GB
> >>
> >> swap of 2GB
> >>
> >> /home  whatever was left over.
> >>
> >>
> >> After install
> >  ...
> >
> > Output of `cat /proc/mdstat`?  (See Linux Raid wiki at
> > raid.wiki.kernel.org)
> >
> For your enjoyment
>
> [egreshko@twodisk ~]$ cat /proc/mdstat
> Personalities : [raid1]
> md126 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0]
>   66098176 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
>   bitmap: 1/1 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk
>
> md127 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]
>   976320 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
>   bitmap: 0/1 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk
>
> FYI, this is a second install using 64GB.
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Re: anaconda problem

[Ed Greshko]

On 03/21/17 19:59, Tony Nelson wrote:
> On 17-03-20 19:42:20, Ed Greshko wrote:
>  ...
>> FWIW, I created a Virtual Machine with 2 32GB disks.  I then installed
>> an F25 KDE based system using the netinst ISO.  I gave the VM 1.2GB of
>> RAM.  For the disk configuration I requested RAID1 and
>>
>> /  of 14GB
>>
>> /boot of 1GB
>>
>> /var of 11GB
>>
>> swap of 2GB
>>
>> /home  whatever was left over.
>>
>>
>> After install
>  ...
>
> Output of `cat /proc/mdstat`?  (See Linux Raid wiki at
> raid.wiki.kernel.org)
>
For your enjoyment

[egreshko@twodisk ~]$ cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md126 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0]
  66098176 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
  bitmap: 1/1 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk

md127 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]
  976320 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
  bitmap: 0/1 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk

FYI, this is a second install using 64GB.

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Re: anaconda problem

[Ed Greshko]

On 03/22/17 01:17, François Patte wrote:
> I read the installation guide
>
> On this page:
>
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/Create_Software_RAID-x86.html
>
> no mention on how to create  an lvm once your raid is created.
>
> (funny: the example given is /usr, maybe an overdose of Jack Daniel's!)

Of course you are using an *old* version of documentation.  F18 was long
before F25 where we are now.

As I already mentioned.  I did the install in a configuration which I
thought you wanted to end up with and I did so successfully.  It is
irrelevant to refer to obsolete documentation where what you want may
not have been possible.

>
> On this page:
>
> no mention on how to create a raid once your lvm is created...
>
> BTW I think I have found how to do: when your lvm is created you click
> on "modify" (I don't know if it is the right word on this button in the
> English version) and you can access to a dropdown menu where ---
> surprise! --- you can find RAID.
>
> Two remarks:
> 1- It is illogical to me to create first lvm then to create the
> underlaying device on which the lvm is created. When you do these
> configuration "by hand" you first create the raid devices, then the vgm,
> lvm etc. then the file systems.

No need to do anything manually.
>
> 2- Modifier (in French) means that you want to correct something wrong
> you have done before not to add some options...

Sounds as if you should donate some translations to the anaconda team. 
(Wonder if there may be a difference in wording for French and
Canadian-French as well as other localized versions.)
>
> Moreover, as far as I have explored this "modify" feature, I cannot see,
> on the anaconda page devoted to partitionning, that a RAID will be
> created! I have to cross my fingers that the modification has been taken
> into account.

I did the install a second time in order to document the steps which
absolutely work. 

http://tinyurl.com/m2csa23  are the screenshots with several important
items pointed out.

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Re: anaconda problem

[Jon LaBadie]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 06:17:37PM +0100, François Patte wrote:
> Le 21/03/2017 16:41, Ed Greshko a écrit :
> > On 03/21/17 23:19, François Patte wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >> As I told in my message: using the graphical version of anaconda, you
> >> have not the choice: either you ask for lvm, or you ask for raid
> > 
> > Well. you are 100% WRONG in that regard. 
> > 
> > I did use the graphical version of anaconda and I created RAID1 **AND**
> > lvm exactly as you had requested.  So, sorry to burst your bubble.  
> > Maybe you need to look more closely on the options available to you?
> 
> I read the installation guide
> 
> On this page:
> 
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/Create_Software_RAID-x86.html
> 
> no mention on how to create  an lvm once your raid is created.
> 
> (funny: the example given is /usr)

That document is seven releases old which suggests it
may be out of date and not reflect current software.

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Re: anaconda problem

[François Patte]

Le 21/03/2017 18:17, François Patte a écrit :
> Le 21/03/2017 16:41, Ed Greshko a écrit :
>> On 03/21/17 23:19, François Patte wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>> As I told in my message: using the graphical version of anaconda, you
>>> have not the choice: either you ask for lvm, or you ask for raid
>>
>> Well. you are 100% WRONG in that regard. 
>>
>> I did use the graphical version of anaconda and I created RAID1 **AND**
>> lvm exactly as you had requested.  So, sorry to burst your bubble.  
>> Maybe you need to look more closely on the options available to you?
> 
> I read the installation guide
> 
> On this page:
> 
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/Create_Software_RAID-x86.html
> 
> no mention on how to create  an lvm once your raid is created.
> 
> (funny: the example given is /usr, maybe an overdose of Jack Daniel's!)
> 
> On this page:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/Create_LVM-x86.html
> 
> no mention on how to create a raid once your lvm is created...
> 
> BTW I think I have found how to do: when your lvm is created you click
> on "modify" (I don't know if it is the right word on this button in the
> English version) and you can access to a dropdown menu where ---
> surprise! --- you can find RAID.
> 
> Two remarks:
> 1- It is illogical to me to create first lvm then to create the
> underlaying device on which the lvm is created. When you do these
> configuration "by hand" you first create the raid devices, then the vgm,
> lvm etc. then the file systems.
> 
> 2- Modifier (in French) means that you want to correct something wrong
> you have done before not to add some options...
> 
> Moreover, as far as I have explored this "modify" feature, I cannot see,
> on the anaconda page devoted to partitionning, that a RAID will be
> created! I have to cross my fingers that the modification has been taken
> into account.
> 
> 
> 
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Re: anaconda problem

[François Patte]

Le 21/03/2017 16:41, Ed Greshko a écrit :
> On 03/21/17 23:19, François Patte wrote:



>> As I told in my message: using the graphical version of anaconda, you
>> have not the choice: either you ask for lvm, or you ask for raid
> 
> Well. you are 100% WRONG in that regard. 
> 
> I did use the graphical version of anaconda and I created RAID1 **AND**
> lvm exactly as you had requested.  So, sorry to burst your bubble.  
> Maybe you need to look more closely on the options available to you?

I read the installation guide

On this page:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/Create_Software_RAID-x86.html

no mention on how to create  an lvm once your raid is created.

(funny: the example given is /usr, maybe an overdose of Jack Daniel's!)

On this page:

no mention on how to create a raid once your lvm is created...

BTW I think I have found how to do: when your lvm is created you click
on "modify" (I don't know if it is the right word on this button in the
English version) and you can access to a dropdown menu where ---
surprise! --- you can find RAID.

Two remarks:
1- It is illogical to me to create first lvm then to create the
underlaying device on which the lvm is created. When you do these
configuration "by hand" you first create the raid devices, then the vgm,
lvm etc. then the file systems.

2- Modifier (in French) means that you want to correct something wrong
you have done before not to add some options...

Moreover, as far as I have explored this "modify" feature, I cannot see,
on the anaconda page devoted to partitionning, that a RAID will be
created! I have to cross my fingers that the modification has been taken
into account.


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Re: anaconda problem

[Tom H]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 11:19 AM, François Patte
 wrote:
> Le 21/03/2017 14:53, Ed Greshko a écrit :
>>
>> Then in a subsequent message you gave a list of what sort of
>> partitioning you wanted and what you seem to have ended up with. And
>> it was brought to your attention that a separate /usr is no longer
>> supported.
>
> Why not supported? You can create as many partitions as you want...
> no? Maybe /usr is obsolete but I cannot see why I cannot have a /usr
> partition?

I don't know whether anaconda allows you to set up a separate "/usr"
but Fedora can definitely boot with such a scheme because dracut added
a "usrmount" module in v14 (F25 has v44) so as to mount "/usr" from an
initramfs.
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Re: anaconda problem

[François Patte]

Le 21/03/2017 17:36, Tim a écrit :
> Allegedly, on or about 21 March 2017, Ed Greshko sent:
>>
>> So  You just want to resize your swap at this point. 
> 
> Wondering if they're trying to resize their swap while it's in use?
> 

No! Of course not

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[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 21 March 2017, Ed Greshko sent:
> 
> So  You just want to resize your swap at this point. 

Wondering if they're trying to resize their swap while it's in use?

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Re: anaconda problem

[Ed Greshko]

On 03/21/17 23:19, François Patte wrote:
> Le 21/03/2017 14:53, Ed Greshko a écrit :
>> On 03/21/17 19:30, François Patte wrote:
>>> So what?
>>>
>>> I am sorry but I do not understand what you mean
>> Well, you originally had made some statements about how bad anaconda
>> is.  In your original post you used phrases like "but after sometimes
>> anaconda refuses to do anything"  and "Unfortunately anaconda crashed a
>> few minutes after the beginning of the install".
> That was the case (many times)

Never had the problem.   And, I'm guessing, if it were generally that
bad as you experienced there would be much more of a revolt going on.

>
>> Then in a subsequent message you gave a list of what sort of
>> partitioning you wanted and what you seem to have ended up with.  And it
>> was brought to your attention that a separate /usr is no longer supported.
> Why not supported? You can create as many partitions as you want... no?
>  Maybe /usr is obsolete but I cannot see why I cannot have a /usr
> partition?

That was explained to you in another message.  Like it or notthat is
the way it is

>
>> So, everything sounded really awful to the point where I had to give it
>> a try to see how badly things were.  So, I just did what I did.  Now,
>> granted, I was drinking Jack Daniel's at the time so I did fail to
>> mention that this was simply an attempt to reproduce your experience.
> I use Jack Daniel's to clean my windows don't you have better Whiskies?

Don't run Windows.  And I'm not a liquor snob.
 
>
>>> Up to now I did not find how to resize my swap partition and how to add
>>> the remaining space to the extended partition.
>>>
>>> I want to resize the swap from this awfull size given by anaconda
>>> (128Gib)  to 4Gib and to move the remaining space (124Gib) to the
>>> extended partition.
>>>
>>> Gparted is unable to do this because of the raid1 device where the swap is.
>> So  You just want to resize your swap at this point. 
>>
>> Now you looked at my other message and saw the output for parted and it
>> may be the same on your system and you see only "primary".
>>
>> Butat Tom pointed out...
>>
>> [root@2disk ~]# lvm vgs
>>   VG #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize  VFree
>>   fedora   1   4   0 wz--n- 31.05g 4.00m
> As I told in my message: using the graphical version of anaconda, you
> have not the choice: either you ask for lvm, or you ask for raid

Well. you are 100% WRONG in that regard. 

I did use the graphical version of anaconda and I created RAID1 **AND**
lvm exactly as you had requested.  So, sorry to burst your bubble.  
Maybe you need to look more closely on the options available to you?

> So I can't resize my awfull swap using this!

Well, too bad then. 
Best of luck then  If you don't have lvm then probably your only
alternative is to turn swap off, delete the swap partition, create a new
smaller partition and enable it.  But, since you're not using lvm the
space that was freed may not be so easy to use elsewhere.

I suppose if you'd actually show your "df" and other information you
could get better help.

>
>
>> FWIW, I am having another Jack tonightbut I hope the above sheds
>> some light on your configuration.
> You'd better choose some single malt not less than 17 years  Jack
> Daniel's could make you a blind man!

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single-malt equates to better.  But I like my Jack and even my Kirland
Gin.   After 43 years of Jack and other and not going blind I think I'm
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Re: anaconda problem

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Le 21/03/2017 14:53, Ed Greshko a écrit :
> On 03/21/17 19:30, François Patte wrote:
>> So what?
>>
>> I am sorry but I do not understand what you mean
> 
> Well, you originally had made some statements about how bad anaconda
> is.  In your original post you used phrases like "but after sometimes
> anaconda refuses to do anything"  and "Unfortunately anaconda crashed a
> few minutes after the beginning of the install".

That was the case (many times)

> 
> Then in a subsequent message you gave a list of what sort of
> partitioning you wanted and what you seem to have ended up with.  And it
> was brought to your attention that a separate /usr is no longer supported.

Why not supported? You can create as many partitions as you want... no?
 Maybe /usr is obsolete but I cannot see why I cannot have a /usr
partition?

> 
> So, everything sounded really awful to the point where I had to give it
> a try to see how badly things were.  So, I just did what I did.  Now,
> granted, I was drinking Jack Daniel's at the time so I did fail to
> mention that this was simply an attempt to reproduce your experience.

I use Jack Daniel's to clean my windows don't you have better Whiskies?

>>
>> Up to now I did not find how to resize my swap partition and how to add
>> the remaining space to the extended partition.
>>
>> I want to resize the swap from this awfull size given by anaconda
>> (128Gib)  to 4Gib and to move the remaining space (124Gib) to the
>> extended partition.
>>
>> Gparted is unable to do this because of the raid1 device where the swap is.
> 
> So  You just want to resize your swap at this point. 
> 
> Now you looked at my other message and saw the output for parted and it
> may be the same on your system and you see only "primary".
> 
> Butat Tom pointed out...
> 
> [root@2disk ~]# lvm vgs
>   VG #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize  VFree
>   fedora   1   4   0 wz--n- 31.05g 4.00m

As I told in my message: using the graphical version of anaconda, you
have not the choice: either you ask for lvm, or you ask for raid

[root@bhaskara ~]# lvm vgs


> 
> [root@2disk ~]# lvm lvs
>   LV   VG Attr   LSize  Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log
> Cpy%Sync Convert
>   home fedora -wi-ao 
> 4.03g   
>   root fedora -wi-ao
> 13.97g   
>   swap fedora -wi-ao 
> 1.86g   
>   var  fedora -wi-ao 11.18g

[root@bhaskara ~]# lvm lvs

[root@bhaskara ~]# pvscan
  No matching physical volumes found

[root@bhaskara ~]# df --exclude-type=tmpfs --exclude-type=devtmpfs
Sys. de fichiers blocs de 1K Utilisé Disponible Uti% Monté sur
/dev/md127   1998672   291241848308   2% /
/dev/md124  41153760 4236552   34803672  11% /usr
/dev/md125999320  106896 823612  12% /boot
/dev/md121  15350728  370164   14177748   3% /var
/dev/md122  41153760   49308   38990916   1% /opt
/dev/md123 619140256  108640  587557952   1% /home

> 
> So, you can see that my swap is in the VG "fedora" along with logical
> volumes.
> 
> So, the path to change the sizes would be along these lines.
> 
> 1.  Turn swap off.
> 
> 2.  lvreduce to shrink swap
> 
> 3.  lvextend to add the space to another lv if desired.

So I can't resize my awfull swap using this!


> 
> FWIW, I am having another Jack tonightbut I hope the above sheds
> some light on your configuration.

You'd better choose some single malt not less than 17 years  Jack
Daniel's could make you a blind man!

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Re: anaconda problem

[Tom H]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Ed Greshko  wrote:
> On 03/21/17 19:54, Tom H wrote:


>> Maybe it would've been clearer if the outputs of lvm and mdadm had
>> been included, but it's clear that:
>>
>> - there are two mdadm raid1s of 1G and 34G,
>>
>> - /boot is the 1G raidvol,
>>
>> - /, /var, /home, and swap are LVs on the 34G raidvol.
>
> OK, fair enough.

:)


> You saw some of the output from lvm commands in another message.

Yes, thanks.


> [root@2disk proc]# mdadm -Q /dev/sda1
> /dev/sda1: is not an md array
> /dev/sda1: device 0 in 2 device active raid1 /dev/md/boot. Use mdadm
> --examine for more detail.
> [root@2disk proc]# mdadm -Q /dev/sda2
> /dev/sda2: is not an md array
> /dev/sda2: device 0 in 2 device active raid1 /dev/md/pv00. Use mdadm
> --examine for more detail.
> [root@2disk proc]# mdadm -Q /dev/sdb1
> /dev/sdb1: is not an md array
> /dev/sdb1: device 1 in 2 device active raid1 /dev/md/boot. Use mdadm
> --examine for more detail.
> [root@2disk proc]# mdadm -Q /dev/sdb2
> /dev/sdb2: is not an md array
> /dev/sdb2: device 1 in 2 device active raid1 /dev/md/pv00. Use mdadm
> --examine for more detail.
>
> [root@2disk md]# mdadm -Q /dev/md/boot
> /dev/md/boot: 953.44MiB raid1 2 devices, 0 spares. Use mdadm --detail
> for more detail.
> [root@2disk md]# mdadm -Q /dev/md/pv00
> /dev/md/pv00: 31.05GiB raid1 2 devices, 0 spares. Use mdadm --detail for
> more detail.

Thanks. I've been using mdadm for a long time and didn't know about
"-Q". I use "-D md_device" and "-E md_component"; and sometimes mix
them up :)
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Re: anaconda problem

[Tom H]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 8:24 AM, François Patte
 wrote:
> Le 21/03/2017 12:54, Tom H a écrit :
>> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:30 AM, François Patte
>>  wrote:
>>> Le 21/03/2017 00:42, Ed Greshko a écrit :
 On 03/20/17 19:17, François Patte wrote:

 FWIW, I created a Virtual Machine with 2 32GB disks. I then installed
 an F25 KDE based system using the netinst ISO. I gave the VM 1.2GB of
 RAM. For the disk configuration I requested RAID1 and

 / of 14GB
 /boot of 1GB
 /var of 11GB
 swap of 2GB
 /home  whatever was left over.

 After install

 [egreshko@2disk ~]$ df --exclude-type=tmpfs --exclude-type=devtmpfs
 Filesystem  1K-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted on
 /dev/mapper/fedora-root  14290376 4892296   8649128  37% /
 /dev/md127 944568  108676770692  13% /boot
 /dev/mapper/fedora-var   11407600  555420  10249660   6% /var
 /dev/mapper/fedora-home   4029540  258672   3543132   7% /home

 [egreshko@2disk ~]$ swapon
 NAME  TYPE  SIZE USED PRIO
 /dev/dm-1 partition 1.9G 2.9M   -1

 [root@2disk ~]# parted
 Using /dev/sda
 (parted) print
 Number  Start   End SizeType File system  Flags
  1  1049kB  1001MB  1000MB  primary   boot, raid
  2  1001MB  34.4GB  33.4GB  primary   raid
 (parted) select /dev/sdb
 (parted) print
 Number  Start   End SizeType File system  Flags
  1  1049kB  1001MB  1000MB  primary   boot, raid
  2  1001MB  34.4GB  33.4GB  primary   raid
>>>
>>> I am sorry but I do not understand what you mean
>>
>> Maybe it would've been clearer if the outputs of lvm and mdadm had
>> been included, but it's clear that:
>>
>> - there are two mdadm raid1s of 1G and 34G,
>>
>> - /boot is the 1G raidvol,
>>
>> - /, /var, /home, and swap are LVs on the 34G raidvol.
>
> Where do you see LV? I only see primary

/dev/mapper/fedora-root
/dev/mapper/fedora-var
/dev/mapper/fedora-home
/dev/dm-1 partition 1.9G 2.9M   -1
and
2  1001MB  34.4GB  33.4GB  primary   raid
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Re: anaconda problem

[Ed Greshko]

On 03/21/17 19:54, Tom H wrote:
> Maybe it would've been clearer if the outputs of lvm and mdadm had
> been included, but it's clear that:
>
> - there are two mdadm raid1s of 1G and 34G,
>
> - /boot is the 1G raidvol,
>
> - /, /var, /home, and swap are LVs on the 34G raidvol.


OK, fair enough.You saw some of the output from lvm commands in
another message.

[root@2disk proc]# mdadm -Q /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1: is not an md array
/dev/sda1: device 0 in 2 device active raid1 /dev/md/boot.  Use mdadm
--examine for more detail.
[root@2disk proc]# mdadm -Q /dev/sda2
/dev/sda2: is not an md array
/dev/sda2: device 0 in 2 device active raid1 /dev/md/pv00.  Use mdadm
--examine for more detail.
[root@2disk proc]# mdadm -Q /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1: is not an md array
/dev/sdb1: device 1 in 2 device active raid1 /dev/md/boot.  Use mdadm
--examine for more detail.
[root@2disk proc]# mdadm -Q /dev/sdb2
/dev/sdb2: is not an md array
/dev/sdb2: device 1 in 2 device active raid1 /dev/md/pv00.  Use mdadm
--examine for more detail.

[root@2disk md]# mdadm -Q /dev/md/boot
/dev/md/boot: 953.44MiB raid1 2 devices, 0 spares. Use mdadm --detail
for more detail.
[root@2disk md]# mdadm -Q /dev/md/pv00
/dev/md/pv00: 31.05GiB raid1 2 devices, 0 spares. Use mdadm --detail for
more detail.


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[Ed Greshko]

On 03/21/17 19:30, François Patte wrote:
> So what?
>
> I am sorry but I do not understand what you mean

Well, you originally had made some statements about how bad anaconda
is.  In your original post you used phrases like "but after sometimes
anaconda refuses to do anything"  and "Unfortunately anaconda crashed a
few minutes after the beginning of the install".

Then in a subsequent message you gave a list of what sort of
partitioning you wanted and what you seem to have ended up with.  And it
was brought to your attention that a separate /usr is no longer supported.

So, everything sounded really awful to the point where I had to give it
a try to see how badly things were.  So, I just did what I did.  Now,
granted, I was drinking Jack Daniel's at the time so I did fail to
mention that this was simply an attempt to reproduce your experience.
>
> Up to now I did not find how to resize my swap partition and how to add
> the remaining space to the extended partition.
>
> I want to resize the swap from this awfull size given by anaconda
> (128Gib)  to 4Gib and to move the remaining space (124Gib) to the
> extended partition.
>
> Gparted is unable to do this because of the raid1 device where the swap is.

So  You just want to resize your swap at this point. 

Now you looked at my other message and saw the output for parted and it
may be the same on your system and you see only "primary".

Butat Tom pointed out...

[root@2disk ~]# lvm vgs
  VG #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize  VFree
  fedora   1   4   0 wz--n- 31.05g 4.00m

[root@2disk ~]# lvm lvs
  LV   VG Attr   LSize  Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log
Cpy%Sync Convert
  home fedora -wi-ao 
4.03g   
  root fedora -wi-ao
13.97g   
  swap fedora -wi-ao 
1.86g   
  var  fedora -wi-ao 11.18g

So, you can see that my swap is in the VG "fedora" along with logical
volumes.

So, the path to change the sizes would be along these lines.

1.  Turn swap off.

2.  lvreduce to shrink swap

3.  lvextend to add the space to another lv if desired.

FWIW, I am having another Jack tonightbut I hope the above sheds
some light on your configuration.


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[François Patte]

Le 21/03/2017 12:54, Tom H a écrit :
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:30 AM, François Patte
>  wrote:
>> Le 21/03/2017 00:42, Ed Greshko a écrit :
>>> On 03/20/17 19:17, François Patte wrote:
> 
> 
 After many attempts to install f25, I can now log in and see how
 anaconda makes the partitionning:

 What I wanted is a RAID1 system with this partitionning:

 /  2Gib
 /boot /  1Gib
 swap  4Gib
 /var  15 Gib
 /usr   40 Gib
 /home  600Gib
> 
> 
>>> FWIW, I created a Virtual Machine with 2 32GB disks. I then installed
>>> an F25 KDE based system using the netinst ISO. I gave the VM 1.2GB of
>>> RAM. For the disk configuration I requested RAID1 and
>>>
>>> / of 14GB
>>> /boot of 1GB
>>> /var of 11GB
>>> swap of 2GB
>>> /home  whatever was left over.
>>>
>>> After install
>>>
>>> [egreshko@2disk ~]$ df --exclude-type=tmpfs --exclude-type=devtmpfs
>>> Filesystem  1K-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted on
>>> /dev/mapper/fedora-root  14290376 4892296   8649128  37% /
>>> /dev/md127 944568  108676770692  13% /boot
>>> /dev/mapper/fedora-var   11407600  555420  10249660   6% /var
>>> /dev/mapper/fedora-home   4029540  258672   3543132   7% /home
>>>
>>> [egreshko@2disk ~]$ swapon
>>> NAME  TYPE  SIZE USED PRIO
>>> /dev/dm-1 partition 1.9G 2.9M   -1
>>>
>>> [root@2disk ~]# parted
>>> Using /dev/sda
>>> (parted) print
>>> Number  Start   End SizeType File system  Flags
>>>  1  1049kB  1001MB  1000MB  primary   boot, raid
>>>  2  1001MB  34.4GB  33.4GB  primary   raid
>>> (parted) select /dev/sdb
>>> (parted) print
>>> Number  Start   End SizeType File system  Flags
>>>  1  1049kB  1001MB  1000MB  primary   boot, raid
>>>  2  1001MB  34.4GB  33.4GB  primary   raid
> 
> 
>> So what?
> 
> ?!
> 
> 
>> I am sorry but I do not understand what you mean
> 
> Maybe it would've been clearer if the outputs of lvm and mdadm had
> been included, but it's clear that:
> 
> - there are two mdadm raid1s of 1G and 34G,
> 
> - /boot is the 1G raidvol,
> 
> - /, /var, /home, and swap are LVs on the 34G raidvol.

Where do you see LV? I only see primary

> 
> 
>> Up to now I did not find how to resize my swap partition and how to add
>> the remaining space to the extended partition.
>>
>> I want to resize the swap from this awfull size given by anaconda
>> (128Gib) to 4Gib and to move the remaining space (124Gib) to the
>> extended partition.
>>
>> Gparted is unable to do this because of the raid1 device where the swap is.
> 
> If you mean that swap is in use, run "swapoff -a" first.

You can deactivate the swap from gparted... Anyway, when I ask Gparted
to resize the swap (/dev/md126 for instance), there is absolutely no
problem and Gparted opens a window and tell me that everything was
successfull and, yes, I can see on the main window that the partition
has been shrinked *but* as soon as I close the window saying that
everything was successfull, the partition goes back to the previous size
(128Gib).

I tried parted
(https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_chapter/parted_7.html
section 7.3.2) but same result: "everything is successfull until I
check the size of my swap partition which is still 128Gib!!!

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Re: anaconda problem

[Tony Nelson]

On 17-03-20 19:42:20, Ed Greshko wrote:
 ...

FWIW, I created a Virtual Machine with 2 32GB disks.  I then installed
an F25 KDE based system using the netinst ISO.  I gave the VM 1.2GB of
RAM.  For the disk configuration I requested RAID1 and

/  of 14GB

/boot of 1GB

/var of 11GB

swap of 2GB

/home  whatever was left over.


After install

 ...

Output of `cat /proc/mdstat`?  (See Linux Raid wiki at
raid.wiki.kernel.org)

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Re: anaconda problem

[Tom H]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:30 AM, François Patte
 wrote:
> Le 21/03/2017 00:42, Ed Greshko a écrit :
>> On 03/20/17 19:17, François Patte wrote:


>>> After many attempts to install f25, I can now log in and see how
>>> anaconda makes the partitionning:
>>>
>>> What I wanted is a RAID1 system with this partitionning:
>>>
>>> /  2Gib
>>> /boot /  1Gib
>>> swap  4Gib
>>> /var  15 Gib
>>> /usr   40 Gib
>>> /home  600Gib


>> FWIW, I created a Virtual Machine with 2 32GB disks. I then installed
>> an F25 KDE based system using the netinst ISO. I gave the VM 1.2GB of
>> RAM. For the disk configuration I requested RAID1 and
>>
>> / of 14GB
>> /boot of 1GB
>> /var of 11GB
>> swap of 2GB
>> /home  whatever was left over.
>>
>> After install
>>
>> [egreshko@2disk ~]$ df --exclude-type=tmpfs --exclude-type=devtmpfs
>> Filesystem  1K-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/mapper/fedora-root  14290376 4892296   8649128  37% /
>> /dev/md127 944568  108676770692  13% /boot
>> /dev/mapper/fedora-var   11407600  555420  10249660   6% /var
>> /dev/mapper/fedora-home   4029540  258672   3543132   7% /home
>>
>> [egreshko@2disk ~]$ swapon
>> NAME  TYPE  SIZE USED PRIO
>> /dev/dm-1 partition 1.9G 2.9M   -1
>>
>> [root@2disk ~]# parted
>> Using /dev/sda
>> (parted) print
>> Number  Start   End SizeType File system  Flags
>>  1  1049kB  1001MB  1000MB  primary   boot, raid
>>  2  1001MB  34.4GB  33.4GB  primary   raid
>> (parted) select /dev/sdb
>> (parted) print
>> Number  Start   End SizeType File system  Flags
>>  1  1049kB  1001MB  1000MB  primary   boot, raid
>>  2  1001MB  34.4GB  33.4GB  primary   raid


> So what?

?!


> I am sorry but I do not understand what you mean

Maybe it would've been clearer if the outputs of lvm and mdadm had
been included, but it's clear that:

- there are two mdadm raid1s of 1G and 34G,

- /boot is the 1G raidvol,

- /, /var, /home, and swap are LVs on the 34G raidvol.


> Up to now I did not find how to resize my swap partition and how to add
> the remaining space to the extended partition.
>
> I want to resize the swap from this awfull size given by anaconda
> (128Gib) to 4Gib and to move the remaining space (124Gib) to the
> extended partition.
>
> Gparted is unable to do this because of the raid1 device where the swap is.

If you mean that swap is in use, run "swapoff -a" first.
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Re: anaconda problem

[François Patte]

Le 21/03/2017 00:42, Ed Greshko a écrit :
> On 03/20/17 19:17, François Patte wrote:
>> After many attempts to install f25, I can now log in and see how
>> anaconda makes the partitionning:
>>
>> What I wanted is a RAID1 system with this partitionning:
>>
>> /  2Gib
>> /boot /  1Gib
>> swap  4Gib
>> /var  15 Gib
>> /usr   40 Gib
>> /home  600Gib
> 
> 
> FWIW, I created a Virtual Machine with 2 32GB disks.  I then installed
> an F25 KDE based system using the netinst ISO.  I gave the VM 1.2GB of
> RAM.  For the disk configuration I requested RAID1 and
> 
> /  of 14GB
> 
> /boot of 1GB
> 
> /var of 11GB
> 
> swap of 2GB
> 
> /home  whatever was left over.
> 
> 
> After install
> 
> [egreshko@2disk ~]$ df --exclude-type=tmpfs --exclude-type=devtmpfs
> Filesystem  1K-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/fedora-root  14290376 4892296   8649128  37% /
> /dev/md127 944568  108676770692  13% /boot
> /dev/mapper/fedora-var   11407600  555420  10249660   6% /var
> /dev/mapper/fedora-home   4029540  258672   3543132   7% /home
> 
> [egreshko@2disk ~]$ swapon
> NAME  TYPE  SIZE USED PRIO
> /dev/dm-1 partition 1.9G 2.9M   -1
> 
> [root@2disk ~]# parted
> GNU Parted 3.2
> Using /dev/sda
> Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
> (parted) print   
> Model: ATA VBOX HARDDISK (scsi)
> Disk /dev/sda: 34.4GB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: msdos
> Disk Flags:
> 
> Number  Start   End SizeType File system  Flags
>  1  1049kB  1001MB  1000MB  primary   boot, raid
>  2  1001MB  34.4GB  33.4GB  primary   raid
> 
> (parted) select /dev/sdb 
> Using /dev/sdb
> (parted) print   
> Model: ATA VBOX HARDDISK (scsi)
> Disk /dev/sdb: 34.4GB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: msdos
> Disk Flags:
> 
> Number  Start   End SizeType File system  Flags
>  1  1049kB  1001MB  1000MB  primary   boot, raid
>  2  1001MB  34.4GB  33.4GB  primary   raid

So what?

I am sorry but I do not understand what you mean

Up to now I did not find how to resize my swap partition and how to add
the remaining space to the extended partition.

I want to resize the swap from this awfull size given by anaconda
(128Gib)  to 4Gib and to move the remaining space (124Gib) to the
extended partition.

Gparted is unable to do this because of the raid1 device where the swap is.

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Re: anaconda problem

[Rejy M Cyriac]

On 03/20/2017 04:47 PM, François Patte wrote:
> Le 19/03/2017 20:13, Joe Zeff a écrit :
>> On 03/19/2017 11:24 AM, François Patte wrote:
>>> For instance: I create / and swap and /home, after that it stops. I
>>> exit and come back; I create / and /boot and swap and /home and /var,
>>> then it stops
>>>
>>> Once I could create all partitions I wanted! Unfortunately anaconda
>>> crashed a few minutes after the beginning of the install!
>>
>> Just to make sure: you do know, don't you, that you can only have four
>> primary partitions?  If you need more partitions, you have to make one
>> of them an extended partition, after which you can create as many
>> logical partitions as you need inside of it?
> 
> After many attempts to install f25, I can now log in and see how
> anaconda makes the partitionning:
> 

For custom partitioning and other such advanced use-case installations,
it is better to use kickstart.

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/25/html/Installation_Guide/chap-kickstart-installations.html

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/25/html/Installation_Guide/appe-kickstart-syntax-reference.html

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Re: anaconda problem

[Ed Greshko]

On 03/20/17 19:17, François Patte wrote:
> After many attempts to install f25, I can now log in and see how
> anaconda makes the partitionning:
>
> What I wanted is a RAID1 system with this partitionning:
>
> /  2Gib
> /boot /  1Gib
> swap  4Gib
> /var  15 Gib
> /usr   40 Gib
> /home  600Gib


FWIW, I created a Virtual Machine with 2 32GB disks.  I then installed
an F25 KDE based system using the netinst ISO.  I gave the VM 1.2GB of
RAM.  For the disk configuration I requested RAID1 and

/  of 14GB

/boot of 1GB

/var of 11GB

swap of 2GB

/home  whatever was left over.


After install

[egreshko@2disk ~]$ df --exclude-type=tmpfs --exclude-type=devtmpfs
Filesystem  1K-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/fedora-root  14290376 4892296   8649128  37% /
/dev/md127 944568  108676770692  13% /boot
/dev/mapper/fedora-var   11407600  555420  10249660   6% /var
/dev/mapper/fedora-home   4029540  258672   3543132   7% /home

[egreshko@2disk ~]$ swapon
NAME  TYPE  SIZE USED PRIO
/dev/dm-1 partition 1.9G 2.9M   -1

[root@2disk ~]# parted
GNU Parted 3.2
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print   
Model: ATA VBOX HARDDISK (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 34.4GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End SizeType File system  Flags
 1  1049kB  1001MB  1000MB  primary   boot, raid
 2  1001MB  34.4GB  33.4GB  primary   raid

(parted) select /dev/sdb 
Using /dev/sdb
(parted) print   
Model: ATA VBOX HARDDISK (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 34.4GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End SizeType File system  Flags
 1  1049kB  1001MB  1000MB  primary   boot, raid
 2  1001MB  34.4GB  33.4GB  primary   raid


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Re: anaconda problem

[Rick Stevens]

On 03/19/2017 03:55 PM, Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 19 March 2017, François Patte sent:
>> My last attempt to install f25 was done creating /, /boot, /usr, /var,
>> /home, /opt and swap partitions on RAID1 devices and *yes* anaconda
>> accepted that *but* I can't log-in because all the passwords I gave
>> are not recognized and I don't know why at this time, so I can't tell
>> you what is the system configuration right now. 
> 
> As I recall, Fedora (or upstream) broke having /usr as a separate
> partition many years ago.  Something about the tools used to mount
> things are (now) inside it, so it needs to be already there at boot
> time, if I recall correctly.

Not exactly. There was a decision to unify / and /usr since the original
reason for having them separate really didn't reflect current hardware.

Back in the day, disks were small so you had to split things up to make
them fit. In those cases, / had _just_ enough stuff to get the system
booted up and able to mount other disks such as the one that contained
/usr.

Now that the smallest disks are much bigger than the old days, it
doesn't make a lot of sense to keep them split up so the decision was
made to unify / and /usr and lots of symlinking is done to make it all
work cleanly. It makes sense, but is unfamiliar to us old f*rts. :-)

> I don't know about your partitioning issues, but *this* will have its
> own problems.  It's possibly the cause of your inability to log in (such
> login tools probably inside an unmounted /usr partition).

First, using a DOS-style partition table, the maximum physical disk
size you can use is 2TB. You are allowed only four primary partitions.
At least one (possibly more) of those may be "extended" partitions, and
only extended partitions may be sub-partitioned. This is how you'd get
more than four partitions (three primary, one extended and any others
would actually be INSIDE the extended partition). If you see a partition
such as "/dev/sda7", that would be the third partition INSIDE the
extended partition.

LVM allows you to split the physical partitions into much smaller
pieces. One classic LVM scenario is to have two primary partitions--
one containing /boot (to boot the system, get the kernel running and
get LVM running), with the other partition set up as an LVM PV (physical
volume). That PV is then used inside an LVM VG (volume group). That VG
can be divvied up into multiple LVM LVs (logical volumes)--each
containing a separate filesystem. The arrangements are quite flexible
but you do have the overhead of managing the LVM configurations.

GPT partition tables don't have these disk size or partition count
restrictions (well, they do but they're much, MUCH bigger).
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Re: anaconda problem

[François Patte]

Le 19/03/2017 20:13, Joe Zeff a écrit :
> On 03/19/2017 11:24 AM, François Patte wrote:
>> For instance: I create / and swap and /home, after that it stops. I
>> exit and come back; I create / and /boot and swap and /home and /var,
>> then it stops
>>
>> Once I could create all partitions I wanted! Unfortunately anaconda
>> crashed a few minutes after the beginning of the install!
> 
> Just to make sure: you do know, don't you, that you can only have four
> primary partitions?  If you need more partitions, you have to make one
> of them an extended partition, after which you can create as many
> logical partitions as you need inside of it?

After many attempts to install f25, I can now log in and see how
anaconda makes the partitionning:

What I wanted is a RAID1 system with this partitionning:

/  2Gib
/boot /  1Gib
swap  4Gib
/var  15 Gib
/usr   40 Gib
/home  600Gib

So, this is what anaconda has done:

/home  600Gib primary partition
swap   128Gib  primary partition   (lol!!!)
/opt  40Gib  primary partition

now an extended partition (/dev/sda4) 163Gib "inside" this partition:
/opt  40Gib
/var  15Gib
/   2Gib
/boot 1Gib

Questions:

1- I would have done /, /boot and swap primary partitions and in an
extended one put the remaining partitions: /var, /usr, /opt and /home

2- Why my swap size is 128Gib I asked for 4Gib!

3- How can I resize this swap? As I asked to have a RAID1 system,
anaconda is unable to manage lvm on raid devices

4- Once upon a time, we could make installs of fedora (and redhat
before) after we had partitionned the disks, we could use fdisk at the
early beginning of the installation, then install the system, why this
feature is no more there, making the install more opaque.

5- I would like to ask people who suggested to use Gparted to partition
my disks before the install, to clearly explain how to proceed for
anaconda seems unable to use an existing partition to make a new install!

Thank you for lights!

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Re: anaconda problem

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 19 March 2017, François Patte sent:
> My last attempt to install f25 was done creating /, /boot, /usr, /var,
> /home, /opt and swap partitions on RAID1 devices and *yes* anaconda
> accepted that *but* I can't log-in because all the passwords I gave
> are not recognized and I don't know why at this time, so I can't tell
> you what is the system configuration right now. 

As I recall, Fedora (or upstream) broke having /usr as a separate
partition many years ago.  Something about the tools used to mount
things are (now) inside it, so it needs to be already there at boot
time, if I recall correctly.

I don't know about your partitioning issues, but *this* will have its
own problems.  It's possibly the cause of your inability to log in (such
login tools probably inside an unmounted /usr partition).

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Re: anaconda problem

[Joe Zeff]

On 03/19/2017 02:24 PM, François Patte wrote:

1- Why sometimes anaconda refuses more than 3 partitions?
2- Why sometimes anaconda accepts more than 5 partitions?
3- How can we tell anaconda to create extended partitions?
5- How can we tell anaconda to create raid devices with extended
partition using lvm?


No idea as to numbers 1 or 2, don't know what happened to 4, and I can't 
help you with 5 because I don't use RAID or lvm.


I think that you can specify that a partition is an extended partition, 
but if not, just use GParted to create all of the partitions you're 
going to need before starting installation.

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Re: anaconda problem

[François Patte]

Le 19/03/2017 20:13, Joe Zeff a écrit :
> On 03/19/2017 11:24 AM, François Patte wrote:
>> For instance: I create / and swap and /home, after that it stops. I
>> exit and come back; I create / and /boot and swap and /home and /var,
>> then it stops
>>
>> Once I could create all partitions I wanted! Unfortunately anaconda
>> crashed a few minutes after the beginning of the install!
> 
> Just to make sure: you do know, don't you, that you can only have four
> primary partitions?  If you need more partitions, you have to make one
> of them an extended partition, after which you can create as many
> logical partitions as you need inside of it?

Yes I know that *but* can you explain:

1- Why sometimes anaconda refuses more than 3 partitions?
2- Why sometimes anaconda accepts more than 5 partitions?
3- How can we tell anaconda to create extended partitions?
5- How can we tell anaconda to create raid devices with extended
partition using lvm?

etc.

My last attempt to install f25 was done creating /, /boot, /usr, /var,
/home, /opt and swap partitions on RAID1 devices and *yes* anaconda
accepted that *but* I can't log-in because all the passwords I gave are
not recognized and I don't know why at this time, so I can't tell you
what is the system configuration right now.

I am wonderind now if fedora is still a serious operating system! I have
been using  fedora, after redhat 5, 6,..., for many years now and it is
the first time  I face so many problems (see my other posts): system
does not stop (I filed a bug on bugzilla with no answer up to now), bugs
in fonts system etc. And it takes me hours to install as anaconda
crashes many times ("an unknown error occured" is the message after I
wasted hours to  make the partitions and launch the install!!)

Really, I am fed up with this last fedora version!

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Re: anaconda problem

[Joe Zeff]

On 03/19/2017 11:24 AM, François Patte wrote:

For instance: I create / and swap and /home, after that it stops. I
exit and come back; I create / and /boot and swap and /home and /var,
then it stops

Once I could create all partitions I wanted! Unfortunately anaconda
crashed a few minutes after the beginning of the install!


Just to make sure: you do know, don't you, that you can only have four 
primary partitions?  If you need more partitions, you have to make one 
of them an extended partition, after which you can create as many 
logical partitions as you need inside of it?

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anaconda problem

[François Patte]

Bonjour,

I try to make a new install of fedora 25. I want to make my own
partitionning but it is almost impossible: I create some partitions (/,
/boot, /home, etc) but after sometimes anaconda refuses to do anything:
it does not add anything and this happens randomly after I created 2 or
3 partitions it stops to add anything.

For instance: I create / and swap and /home, after that it stops. I
exit and come back; I create / and /boot and swap and /home and /var,
then it stops

Once I could create all partitions I wanted! Unfortunately anaconda
crashed a few minutes after the beginning of the install!

Anaconda is really bugged! (For instance: I ask for an install in French
langage, when I want to add a mount point, a dialog box opens with a
help message in French: "par exemple <<20Gio>> without the quotes" If I
type 20 Gio as suggested, anaconda does not know what 20Gio means
(Gio=Gib in French), and gives an awfull size, for instance 46Mio or
something else...)


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