F18 partitioning LVM Question....

[Daniel Krawchuk]

On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 22:11 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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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You cannot create the LV's using the installer.  You have to do that
manually using the LVM tools.  Once you have created them, the installer
will let you format them and mount them.

Dan Krawchuk

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