On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:04:02 +0100 Frans Pop wrote: > reassign 411586 partman-lvm > severity 411586 minor > thanks I think you forgot to Cc: control@b.d.o ... > > On Tuesday 20 February 2007 00:44, Francesco Poli wrote: > > I cannot understand what's wrong. > > Does the confirmation message mean that nothing can be customised? > > I thought it referred to the physical partitioning only (that is > > to say, the /dev/sda1,/dev/sda5 split)... > > Resizing LVM partitions is not supported. This is awkward, as I will be able to resize them *after* the system is installed and running. IIUC, this is the whole point of using LVM! As a consequence, I find it strange that I cannot resize them while I'm about to create their layout... > If you want to customize > them, you need to go to the "configure LVM" at the top of the main > partman menu option and make your changes there by deleting LVs and > recreating them at the desired size. Then you probably will have to > assign mountpoints again. This is more or less equivalent to setting up the whole layout using the Manual method, isn't it? What's the point of having a Guided LVM method, then? It's just a "take it or leave it" offer, and one that is not even easily undoable, IIUC... > > I agree that the user interface is not optimal for this. Undoubtedly > it will be improved in the future, just as support for LVM has > improved steadily between sarge and etch. > I hope it will. Anyway, I'll try the Manual method, for the time being... -- http://frx.netsons.org/progs/scripts/refresh-pubring.html Need to refresh your keyring in a piecewise fashion? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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