couple questions about LVM setup during f19 installation

[Robert P. J. Day]

  (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

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[Mateusz Marzantowicz]

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

[Robert P. J. Day]

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

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Robert P. J. Day                                 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
                        http://crashcourse.ca

Twitter:                                       http://twitter.com/rpjday
LinkedIn:                               http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday
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[Tim]

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.

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