Kickstart Installation using Existing LVM Logical Volume

[Michael DeHaan]

S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I hope this issue is not Fedora specific, so I posting the question 
> here. I am working on a Fedora 8 kickstart installation that should 
> use existing LVM logical volume as home partition. However, it keep 
> failing with an error like this:
>
>> Could not allocate requested partitions:
>>
>> Adding this partition would not leave enough disk space
>> for already allocated logical volumes in 2008AF_data..
>>
>> Press 'OK' to exit the installer.
>
> * 2008AF_data is the name of volume group
>
> The kickstart code dealing with partition is quoted below:
>
> clearpart --all --drives=sda
> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=128
> part pv.1 --size=1536 --grow --ondisk=sda
> volgroup 2008A6_work pv.1
> logvol swap --fstype swap --name=2008A6_swap --vgname=2008A6_work 
> --size=512
> logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=2008A6_var --vgname=2008A6_work 
> --size=512
> logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=2008A6_root --vgname=2008A6_work 
> --size=3904
> part pv.2 --noformat --onpart sdb1
> volgroup 2008AF_data pv.2 --noformat --useexisting
> logvol /home --noformat --useexisting --name=2008AF_home 
> --vgname=2008AF_data --fstype ext3
>
> * 2008AF_home is the name of logical volume to be reused
>
> I already tried without --useexisting, with estimated size (not 
> accurate, but I added --grow), without --fstype, etc. same error.
>
> Any idea what's wrong?
>
> Thanks!
>

Have you looked at generating a sample kickstart using 
system-config-kickstart and using something derived from that one?

--Michael