Well, I succeeded today setting Up LM9.0 with LVM. I believe the pbm was
that I used "Linux_extended (0x85)" partition type instead of plain
"Extended".
I have now the following setup:
SWAP hda1 Primary
/boot hda5 Extended Ext2
/ hda6 Extended ReiserFS
LVM Extended
/usr ReiserFS
/home ReiserFS
/opt ReiserFS
/var ReiserFS
/tmp ReiserFS
and it's all working fine.
Just 2 comments:
- it would be nice to have the option to have / in the LV as well
- when drakdisk starts spitting out errors it's hard to make it behave
again without restarting... maybe the error handling could be
frendlier :)
Otherwise, LM9.0 looks really good, it feels definitely faster than 8.2
I'm going to set it up on 4 boxes so I guess I'll have some more to
report.
Thanks Mandrake.
/Fred
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 19:09, Alan Hughes wrote:
> I'm surpised! I installed 9.0 this morning with / as a normal ReiserFS
> partition, a swap partition and an LVM partition that spanned the remainder
> of the disk plus two other disks. I have the same set of partitions on my
> LVM volume (although the sizes are different - much larger disks) and had no
> problems. I only used the installer.
>
> However at one time I did have a problem with LVM (must have been about Beta
> 3 or 4) which Pixel though he had fixed. It was OK for me afterwards, but
> maybe I did'nt test it well enough.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frederic Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 8:32 PM
> Subject: [Cooker] LM9.0: Setting up LVM
>
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I have been trying to setup LM9.0 using LVM with no success so far...
> > The box is a vanilla Dell 4100 with a 20Gb HD, 256MB Ram & P3 933MHz
> >
> > The first pbm is that / cannot be part of the LVM... (had no pbm having
> > / part of the LVM on RH (null) and Gentoo.
> >
> > Scenario A
> > ----------
> > 1) ran fdisk /dev/hda from tomsrtbt and created
> > - a Linux extended partition (0x85) containing:
> > swap 700Mb
> > /boot 30Mb Linux native (0x82)
> > / 250Mb Linux native (0x82)
> > LVM remaining of space (0x8e)
> > 2) started the LM installer
> > 3) during the partitioning step:
> > - changed the / type (0x82) to ReiserFS
> > - selected the LVM "Add to LVM" and named it "lv1"
> > (a new tab "lv1" appeared alongside "hda")
> > - selected the "lv1" tab
> > - created the following for the LVM:
> > - /usr 5500Mb ReiserFS
> > - /home 3500Mb ReiserFS
> > - /opt 2500Mb ReiserFS
> > - /var 4200Mb ReiserFS
> > - /tmp 1200Mb ReiserFS
> > - clicked "done"
> > - Selected all partitions to be formatted incl. extra checks
> > for bad blocks for the swap and /boot
> > - made a prayer and clicked ok
> >
> > after a while I get an error that /dev/hda7 (/ in this scenario) cannot
> > be formatted...
> > Tried to go back and clear all the partitions to start again and I got
> > error msgs "lvremove failed" (or something equivalent).
> > Tried to backtrack evenmore until drakdisk was up shit creek.
> >
> > Rebooted under tomsrtbt and cleaned up all partitions then tried again
> > using only drakdisk from a clean disk, the bloody thing would not even
> > create the LVM (0x8e) partition...
> > Tried again with partioning from fdisk (tomsrtbt) and using same
> > partitioning as above with linux native type instead of ReiserFS, no
> > more success...
> >
> > So basically, If someone had success setting up LVM in LM9.0 using only
> > drakdisk or a combination of fdisk/drakdisk then I'd like to hear from
> > you :)
> >
> > I cannot believe it's not working so maybe I'm not using drakdisk
> > correctly.
> >
> > I've got a laptop using LVM from a RH (null) install and another box
> > using LVM from a Gentoo install (this box has 3 HDs) and both
> > installation worked 1st time.
> >
> > What is wrong with drakdisk or with me ;)
> >
> > Ideas, suggestions much appreciated. Thanks.
> >
> > /Fred
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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