preserving partitions during reinstall

[Suvayu Ali]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:29:02PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> 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.
> 

Do you have an unencrypted volume around?  This could be a bug; as far
as I recall Anaconda used to have trouble with encrypted volumes
sometime in the past.  This could just be a regression.

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Suvayu

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