Bug#247342: LVM devices presented in strange way

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

severity 247342 wishlist
thanks

On  4.V.2004 at 17:06 (+0100) Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> 
> I created some LVM devices, and they were presented in partman like
> this:
> 
>    /dev/tbm/home - 5.3 GB
>    >      #1   5.3 GB   f xfs        /home
>    /dev/tbm/media - 9.6 GB
>    >      #1   9.6 GB   f reiserfs   /media
> 
> When I choose the first entry (/dev/tbm/home - 5.3 GB), I would get
> the standard warning about partitioning a whole device... however,
> /dev/tbm/home is correct... it's comparable to /dev/hda1, rather than
> /dev/hda.

For parted it is a partitionable device.  partman-lvm automatically
creates a loop "partition table" in it (i.e. says parted not to use
partition table).

> I think it would be better to represent them like this:
> 
>    /dev/tbm/home  - 5.3 GB  f  xfs       /home
>    /dev/tbm/media - 9.6 GB  f  reiserfs  /media
> 
> or probably:
> 
>    /dev/tbm
>           home      5.3 GB   f xfs        /home
>           media     9.6 GB   f reiserfs   /media

You are right.  I am not sure that I will have time to fix this before
the release of sarge as it seams that a lot of things need to be done
before that.

Anton Zinoviev