preserving partitions during reinstall

[Dave Mitchell]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 03:38:06PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:39:23AM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> > 
> > I expect an option within anaconda that will *inspect* the existing
> > partitioning layout of a device, and present that to me as the new
> > default. Anaconda has the ability to examine the vg_pigeon device, and
> > see that there are 3 partitions on it, last mounted as /, /home and swap.
> Doesn't Rick's response say you get that option when you choose "Replace
> Existing Linux System(s)"?  I do not have an optical drive, so I can't
> really boot and check.  Or could it be that Anaconda has problems
> because your LVM is encrypted?

Just to be absolutely clear: on both the original system, and on a second
system (to confirm), I have very carefully gone through every partitioning
option, and checked that *none* of them recognise the existing partitions
in the encrypted volume. But note also that just before reaching that stage,
anaconda prompts me for the password for sda2, so in principle it has the
information needed to retrieve that partitioning data.

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