(been a while since i've used fedora extensively, am now switching back so first few questions might be on the simple side.)
first, during an f19 install, i chose to do an LVM install and explicitly selected a small number of logical volumes to create but i wanted the single volume group itself to encompass the entire remaining 300G of the hard drive, so i could later just "lvcreate" more logical volumes in the free space in that volume group.
instead, while i *thought* i had specified that i wanted the volume group to max out on the hard drive, it was created only large enough to hold the fixed-size logical volumes i selected. so at this point, i would have to create another PV for the rest of the hard drive, and extend the volume group to encompass that. what should i have selected during install to specify that i wanted the volume group to consist of a single PV that took up the entire remaining part of the hard drive?
and, second, once the system was running, i checked out the alleged kickstart file that was created that would represent the installation, and for the disk layout, all i saw was the directive:
autopart --type=lvm
i was expecting to see a more detailed breakdown of the way i defined my logical volumes -- is that not included in the auto-generated kickstart file?
thanks muchly.
rday
Allegedly, on or about 29 November 2013, Robert P. J. Day sent:
instead, while i *thought* i had specified that i wanted the volume group to max out on the hard drive, it was created only large enough to hold the fixed-size logical volumes i selected. so at this point, i would have to create another PV for the rest of the hard drive, and extend the volume group to encompass that.
You should be able to increase the size of the existing one, as far as I'm aware. There's a command called pvresize, see what it's man page says.
On Sat, 30 Nov 2013, Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 29 November 2013, Robert P. J. Day sent:
instead, while i *thought* i had specified that i wanted the volume group to max out on the hard drive, it was created only large enough to hold the fixed-size logical volumes i selected. so at this point, i would have to create another PV for the rest of the hard drive, and extend the volume group to encompass that.
You should be able to increase the size of the existing one, as far as I'm aware. There's a command called pvresize, see what it's man page says.
oh, i know about that, i was just confused as to why it didn't work during install, but i tried it again later and, mystery, i got the VG to span the entire disk. no idea what i did differently but it's happy now.
rday
On 29.11.2013 17:55, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Sat, 30 Nov 2013, Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 29 November 2013, Robert P. J. Day sent:
instead, while i *thought* i had specified that i wanted the volume group to max out on the hard drive, it was created only large enough to hold the fixed-size logical volumes i selected. so at this point, i would have to create another PV for the rest of the hard drive, and extend the volume group to encompass that.
You should be able to increase the size of the existing one, as far as I'm aware. There's a command called pvresize, see what it's man page says.
oh, i know about that, i was just confused as to why it didn't work during install, but i tried it again later and, mystery, i got the VG to span the entire disk. no idea what i did differently but it's happy now.
rday
To be honest - don't use Anaconda to create any complex LVM setups. Prepare your disks prior to installation and then choose what goes where. I found it very hard to really customize my disk layout since that "awesome" Anaconda rewrite.
Mateusz Marzantowicz
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