Lubuntu Installer does not provide LVM

[Wolfgang Schwarz]

Lubuntu 18.04 installer provided the possibility to create a LVM filesystem.
In Lubuntu 20.04+ installer this option is missing.

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

We don't have plans to add a dedicated LVM option, but you can always do it with manual partitioning.

This may change in the future.

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Hmmm. I've been thinking on this and can't seem to shake the feeling we need to look further in 2024.

[ԜаӀtеr Ⅼарсһуnѕkі (wxl)]

As you can see with https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/calamares/+bug/2048470 LVM is broken upstream. Are you suggesting that Lubuntu should have a standard LVM option once that gets fixed?

[Wolfgang Schwarz (oyano)]

Hello,

unfortunately I could not login into the bug system. So I answer with
email. I could only take a look into bug 2048470. No question: this
should be fixed at first.

The LVM option in Lubuntu installer is highly desirable. So my
suggestion would be: yes, add the LVM option to the Lubuntu installer as
it was already in 18.04.

Thank you

Wolfgang Schwarz

Am 25.03.24 um 06:10 schrieb ԜаӀtеr Ⅼарсһуnѕkі:
> As you can see with
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/calamares/+bug/2048470 LVM is
> broken upstream. Are you suggesting that Lubuntu should have a standard
> LVM option once that gets fixed?
>

[Hadmut Danisch (hadmut)]

Not a duplicate, since this bug is about LUKS2, where LVM is available, just doesn't find the encrypted partition, and LUKS2 didn't ask for a password.

So this smells as if LUKS2 hasn't been implemented, just offered as a choice in the manual partitioner (while the automatic partitioner offers working LUKS encryption).

[Aaron Rainbolt (arraybolt3)]

LUKS2 works just fine in the manual partitioner of Calamares, but LVM does not last I tried. If you use LUKS2 *without* LVM, everything works great. I'm not sure why the upstream Calamares devs exposed LVM in the user interface when it was still incomplete, but they did, and I think it's *still* incomplete in the version that ended up on the released 24.04 ISO.