couple questions about LVM setup during f19 installation

[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