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partman-lvm package

installer partitioner with existing LVM is confusing

Bug #85405 reported by vroetman on 2007-02-15

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	partman-lvm (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: partman-lvm

This is daily build 20070215.2 feisty-alternate-i386 installer:

If LVM logical volumes already exist, and choosing Manual Partitioning, the LVM partition shows up as no file system, with no indication that it is a PV. There is no indication (including in help) that I should set "use as" to "physical volume for LVM".
Only then does it show "Configure the Logical Volume Manager".

Selecting this says it will write changes to the disk which strikes great fear into my heart that it might overwrite the whole PV.

The installer should detect that it is already a PV, and going into "Configure the Logical Volume Manager" should not entail a write to the disk, similar to going into "Configure the Logical Volume Manager" after a volume group has already been activated.

note: this is similar to bug 39211

See original description

vroetman (vroetman) on 2007-02-15

description:

updated

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vroetman (vroetman) wrote on 2007-02-16:

/var/log/installer/partman file Edit (28.0 KiB, application/octet-stream)

Attached is the installer partman file from /var/log/installer/partman.
The LVM physical partition is sda8

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Andreas Moog (ampelbein) wrote on 2008-08-17:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

Changed in partman-lvm:
assignee:	nobody → andreas-moog
status:	New → Incomplete

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Andreas Moog (ampelbein) wrote on 2008-08-30: Closing the Report

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Closing the report since there was no info whether this was still an
issue. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and
don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug
report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and
change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

status invalid
assignee nobody
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