f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)

David Lehman dlehman at redhat.com
Wed Nov 21 20:01:37 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 12:09 -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> On 10/19/2012 10:01 AM, David Lehman wrote:
> > This is the main piece of functionality that's still missing: allocating
> > devices from preexisting VGs.
> > 
> > You can create and destroy lvm devices. You can reuse existing LVs,
> > optionally reformatting them. You can encrypt or decrypt them. What you
> > cannot do is allocate new LVs from old VGs. That's sort of the last item
> > on the TODO list.
> 
> It looks like this is still the case in beta RC1, right?

Yes. I've just completed testing of patches for this stuff. It was
decided that it's too late to try to get them into the Beta. I can
provide you with an updates image that adds the functionality if you are
interested.

David



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