Manual Partitioning and LVM, Re: Puzzled

Gene Czarcinski gene at czarc.net
Wed Dec 5 11:45:08 UTC 2012


On 12/04/2012 05:55 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Dec 4, 2012, at 3:13 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
>
>> You'll need to make sure you've manually created an LV because neither anaconda autopart or Manual Partitioning can create an LV from available VG free space.
> By this I mean, create the LV outside of anaconda.
>
> Slightly off topic, I'm kinda liking system-storage-manager new to F18 and installable from the live cd.
> yum install system-storage-manager
> ssm list
>
> And you'll get a listing of all devices, pools, volumes, and their mount points, better layout all in one place rather than having to go dig for info with multiple tools: fdisk, df, pvscan, lvscan, etc.
>
>
You are right ... ssm is nice.  I wonder if there is a gui version planned?

Gene


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