F18 partitioning LVM Question....

[Ed Greshko]

On 12/26/2012 08:51 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Dec 26, 2012, at 5:03 AM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
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>> What I wanted to do was create a large physical volume and then create several logical volumes within and some un-allocated space.  I want to do this since I'm not certain as to the ultimate size needs of the partitions as time goes by.  So, if need be, I can add to a partition or shrink a partition.
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>> I could find no way to do this in the "customize" partition layout of F18.  I'm pretty sure it could be done in F17.
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>> Am I missing something or is this feature not yet available but planned?
> I'm not understanding what point you're getting lost. On a 2TB disk, I can create one partition that goes to an LVM VG, from which I create four LVs: swap, root, boot, home. 4GB, 50GB, 500MB, and 50GB respectively. The remaining 1.99TB is unallocated.
>
> BTW this single partition, everything in LVM, is GRUB2 bootable.

Well, maybe I'm confused....  So, would you mind to show the output of "pvscan" for your system?


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