Manual Partitioning and LVM, Re: Puzzled

[Gene Czarcinski]

As far as getting F18 installed, some of this is OBE because I used 
fedup and it worked just fine so I now have a live F18 system for testing.

However, I would like the installer to work and of all the parts that I 
consider critical, storage configuration is first in line. I believe 
that the best way I can duplicate the problem and get some documentation 
is to replicate it virtually and get some screenshots. mmmm I wonder if 
the remote display still works?  I used that in the past.  Now, if only 
I can remember how to do it.

On 12/05/2012 02:41 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Dec 4, 2012, at 11:52 PM, Gene Czarcinski <gene at czarc.net> wrote:
>> I am not sure how things are suppose to work but I do not see ANY LVs!!!!
> In Manual Partitioning, on the left side, you do not have an +Unknown listing located under -New Fedora 18 Installation? Or there are no LV's listed?
I will go back and double check but I do not remember seeing an LVs.

And, yes, I want to re-use previously allocated LVs for my install.
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>> There are regular old partitions which I can use for /boot but all of the rest of my disk space is in PVs.
> What do you get for pvscan and lvscan? Are there inactive LVs?
I will need to check.
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>> IMO, the whole way storage is being handled in F18 needs to be rethought!  Guessing how to do something should never happen.
> I agree. But I think in your case the trail is leading to a bug not flawed design.
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I am sure this is a bug.  However, I would like some button or whatever 
"earlier" in the process that says "I know what I am doing, let me 
manually configure existing partitions and/or LVs or allocate new ones 
on mount points.

Gene