Re: Problems configuring an LVM system

[Christian Mack <mack_kn@gmx.de>]

Hi Bob

Bob Alexander wrote:
> Dear friends,
> I have tried the 20050518 snapshot of sarge installer.
< ... >
> What I am trying to achieve (and already have on other systems) is to
> use one physical partition (let's say a 100MB /dev/sda1) for the root
> filesystem, another physical partition for the swap space (let's say a
> 1GB /dev/sdb1) while I would like to place all the remaining space of
> /dev/sda and /dev/sdb and all of the physical /dev/sdc into a new volume
> group.
> 
> I therefore partitioned the disks as follows:
> 
> /dev/sda1 100MB ReiserFS mounted as /
> /dev/sda2 18.5GB ReiserFS not mounted

Here is the solution:
Remove the file system by deleting this partitions. If there isn't ReiserFS
using these partitions, you can get LVM on it.

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> Thank you,
> Bob Alexander
> 
> PS The installer says quite a few modules are still not loaded and would
> be later on ...
> 
This is intended normal behavior.

Bye
Christian