Keith Hellman написав: > > I went through the repartitioning by first removing all the partitions, then adding > back in a > root, swap, and two LVM physical volumes. When it came time to declare a volume > group however, > the name system failed. The error messgages on the third console suggest the issue > being that > the system booted and detected the original 'system', and refused to creat another > "A volume group called 'system' alread exists." > I'm not sure if I would have experienced this error had I *first* deleted the volume > group and > *then* repartitioned the drive.
Yes, now you must delete all volume groups and maybe run pvremove for all PVs that you does not want to use. > I'm afraid it is too late to try that now since the drive is > already repartitioned. I worked around this be simply calling my Volume Group 'sys'. > > This is my third use of the installer for LVM and things keep getting smoother. I'm > not sure if > you've fixed things in the LVM logic or perhaps I'm just becoming more experienced > with it - > but its PROGRESS! > > Thanks for all your efforts. > > -- Eugeniy Meshcheryakov Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University Information and Computing Centre http://icc.univ.kiev.ua -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]