On Dec 28, 2012, at 1:39 AM, Ed Greshko <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/28/2012 12:31 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> If you mean you want a single partition consuming the whole disk, all of it >> in the VG, but to specify LVs that don't use all of the space in the VG, no >> you can't do that within anaconda. You'd need to do that in a shell first: >> partition, make it a pv, add it to a VG, then run anaconda. Any mount points >> you create will by default become LV's using that VG. > > Your last paragraph says it all.... "you can't do that in anaconda". > *Previously*, you could…. It seems more likely that's incidental behavior, than designed behavior. It's an installer. Its job is to install a system. > > From an F17 system .... > > [root@f17dt ~]# pvscan > PV /dev/sda3 VG vg_A lvm2 [196.91 GiB / 28.31 GiB free] > PV /dev/sda2 VG vg_B lvm2 [58.56 GiB / 14.59 GiB free] > Total: 2 [255.47 GiB] / in use: 2 [255.47 GiB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] > [root@f17dt ~]# lvscan > ACTIVE '/dev/vg_A/lv01' [97.66 GiB] inherit (/home) > ACTIVE '/dev/vg_A/lv00' [1.97 GiB] inherit (swap) > ACTIVE '/dev/vg_A/lv02' [68.97 GiB] inherit (/usr/local) > ACTIVE '/dev/vg_B/lv01' [34.19 GiB] inherit (/opt) > ACTIVE '/dev/vg_B/lv00' [9.78 GiB] inherit (/) > It was easy to create 2 PV's on one disk and then several LV's within the PV. > As you can see, I've got free space on both PV's which can be added to what > LV I want online. I see confusion. Do you realize you effectively have 10 partitions, that we know of, on a single disk? What's the advantage of sda2 and sda3 being separate instead of in a single VG? You're basically increasing your overall system latency by having multiple PV's on a single spindle. In any case, this is the domain of a different application, not an OS installer. > > Can't do the same configuration at install time, with ease, on F18. So, the > question remains, will the same feature be added in the future as existed in > F17 and prior releases? A valid question for the installer to ask the user is how to allocate disk free space: what amount of that space should become a PV/VG. Making assumptions ensures it's going to be wrong a good percent of the time. Chris Murphy -- test mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
