PVcreate in extended logical partitions

Darwin H. Webb thethirddoorontheleft at verizon.net
Fri Dec 9 22:33:16 UTC 2005


Jon Burgess wrote:
> Darwin H. Webb wrote:
>> The problem was that the partition table was not being (written) and 
>> re-loaded.
> ...
>> So I would like someone to verify that the anaconda install routine 
>> using the disk druid graphic partitioner can create LVM items on the 
>> extended logical partitions because when I used it a few months ago 
>> in FC4 it would not let me create one.
>
> Repartitioning in FC4 was seriously broken.
> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160693
>
> This bug meant that the partition table was written to the disk, but 
> was not re-read correctly. This caused all kinds of issues with the 
> following lvm and formatting steps.
>
> The bug is fixed in fc5t1, but i've not got around to testing it.
>
>     Jon
>
OK, but time is short. :)
Do you know what tool is actually used to partition in adaconda?

Thanks,

Darwin Webb




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