Hi!
I am working on a Fedora 8 kickstart installation that should use existing LVM logical volume as home partition. However, it keep failing with an error like this:
Could not allocate requested partitions:
Adding this partition would not leave enough disk space for already allocated logical volumes in 2008AF_data..
Press 'OK' to exit the installer.
* 2008AF_data is the name of volume group
The kickstart code dealing with partition is quoted below:
clearpart --all --drives=sda part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=128 part pv.1 --size=1536 --grow --ondisk=sda volgroup 2008A6_work pv.1 logvol swap --fstype swap --name=2008A6_swap --vgname=2008A6_work --size=512 logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=2008A6_var --vgname=2008A6_work --size=512 logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=2008A6_root --vgname=2008A6_work --size=3904 part pv.2 --noformat --onpart sdb1 volgroup 2008AF_data pv.2 --noformat --useexisting logvol /home --noformat --useexisting --name=2008AF_home --vgname=2008AF_data --fstype ext3
* 2008AF_home is the name of logical volume to be reused
I already tried without --useexisting, with estimated size (not accurate, but I added --grow), without --fstype, etc. same error.
Any idea what's wrong?
Thanks!
On 1/30/08, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo arifsaha@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi!
I am working on a Fedora 8 kickstart installation that should use existing LVM logical volume as home partition. However, it keep failing with an error like this:
Could not allocate requested partitions:
Adding this partition would not leave enough disk space for already allocated logical volumes in 2008AF_data..
Press 'OK' to exit the installer.
* 2008AF_data is the name of volume groupThe kickstart code dealing with partition is quoted below:
clearpart --all --drives=sda part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=128 part pv.1 --size=1536 --grow --ondisk=sda volgroup 2008A6_work pv.1 logvol swap --fstype swap --name=2008A6_swap --vgname=2008A6_work --size=512 logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=2008A6_var --vgname=2008A6_work --size=512 logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=2008A6_root --vgname=2008A6_work --size=3904 part pv.2 --noformat --onpart sdb1 volgroup 2008AF_data pv.2 --noformat --useexisting logvol /home --noformat --useexisting --name=2008AF_home --vgname=2008AF_data --fstype ext3
* 2008AF_home is the name of logical volume to be reusedI already tried without --useexisting, with estimated size (not accurate, but I added --grow), without --fstype, etc. same error.
Any idea what's wrong?
For starters, you're using "clearpart --all" which will erase all your existing partitions. I think your part pv.1 should use --onpart rather than --ondisk and you might need --useexisting on the volgroup line.
For reference here is a disk layout I've successfully used to put everything onto existing lvm partitions:
clearpart --none part /boot --fstype ext3 --onpart=/dev/sda2 part pv.01 --onpart=/dev/sda5 volgroup privg pv.01 --useexisting logvol / --fstype ext3 --useexisting --name=priroot --vgname=privg --grow --size=6000 logvol /var --fstype ext3 --useexisting --name=privar --vgname=privg --size=1024 logvol swap --fstype swap --useexisting --name=priswap --vgname=privg --size=1024
Regards,
Chris
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Chris Rouch wrote:
For starters, you're using "clearpart --all" which will erase all your existing partitions. I think your part pv.1 should use --onpart rather than --ondisk and you might need --useexisting on the volgroup line.
On the first drive, existing partion need to be cleared and new partition and volgroup need to be created.
Only on the second drive existing LVM volume need to be reused.
clearpart --none part /boot --fstype ext3 --onpart=/dev/sda2 part pv.01 --onpart=/dev/sda5 volgroup privg pv.01 --useexisting logvol / --fstype ext3 --useexisting --name=priroot --vgname=privg --grow --size=6000 logvol /var --fstype ext3 --useexisting --name=privar --vgname=privg --size=1024 logvol swap --fstype swap --useexisting --name=priswap --vgname=privg --size=1024
This look very similar to what I tried, except that I use 2 drives and on the other drive need to be reinitialized. Can this be done in kickstart?
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Chris Rouch -
S P Arif Sahari Wibowo