Bug#262714: (no subject)
Keith Hellman написав:
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> I went through the repartitioning by first removing all the partitions, then adding back in a
> root, swap, and two LVM physical volumes. When it came time to declare a volume group however,
> the name system failed. The error messgages on the third console suggest the issue being that
> the system booted and detected the original 'system', and refused to creat another
> "A volume group called 'system' alread exists."
> I'm not sure if I would have experienced this error had I *first* deleted the volume group and
> *then* repartitioned the drive.
Yes, now you must delete all volume groups and maybe run pvremove for
all PVs that you does not want to use.
> I'm afraid it is too late to try that now since the drive is
> already repartitioned. I worked around this be simply calling my Volume Group 'sys'.
>
> This is my third use of the installer for LVM and things keep getting smoother. I'm not sure if
> you've fixed things in the LVM logic or perhaps I'm just becoming more experienced with it -
> but its PROGRESS!
>
> Thanks for all your efforts.
>
>
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Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
Information and Computing Centre
http://icc.univ.kiev.ua
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