logvol --noformat on FC5

[Ryan C. Spaulding]

Hi Axel,

Can you send the bug number once you submit it? I think this will be  
a problem I will have to deal with in a few months when we have to  
upgrade a number of systems with LVM on them.

Thank you,

Ryan



On Apr 16, 2006, at 4:47 PM, Axel Thimm wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:43:12AM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:59:31PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
>>> I'm trying to setup a kickstart file to reinstall FC5 on a hard disk
>>> while keeping a data partition intact. The data partition is in  
>>> fact a
>>> logical volume to allow me to reshuffle PEs if neccessary.
>>>
>>> If I look at the anaconda.cfg that is created when I enter the setup
>>> manually in anaconda I see the following directives:
>>>
>>> #part /boot --fstype ext3 --onpart sda1
>>> #part pv.2 --noformat --onpart sda2
>>> #volgroup systemoctopus --pesize=32768 pv.2
>>> #logvol /srv/atrpms.net/storage/octopus --noformat --fstype ext3  
>>> --name=data --vgname=systemoctopus --size=222272
>>> #logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=root --vgname=systemoctopus -- 
>>> size=14976
>>> #logvol swap --fstype swap --name=swap --vgname=systemoctopus -- 
>>> size=1984
>>>
>>> But if I try to use them to automate the process the install results
>>> in
>>>
>>> | Error mounting device systemoctopus/data as
>>> | /srv/atrpms.net/storage/octopus: No such file or directory
>>> |
>>> | This most likely meas this partition has not been formated.
>>> |
>>> | Press OK to reboot your system.
>>
>> BTW: Even though there is this error message the data partition that
>> was to be --noformat'ed is lost. Looks like anaconda wipes the whole
>> volume group.
>
> Looks like the bug is in missing --noformat on the volgroup
> declaration as well as missing --useexisting on the logvol lines w/o
> the --noformat. E.g. the bug is in the creation of the anaconda.cfg
> file, not in the parsing.
>
> I'll file a bug as soon as bugzilla is up again.
> -- 
> Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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