Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > On Friday 18 May 2007 01:04, Josh Triplett wrote: >> The partitioner does not allow using an entire RAID device such as >> /dev/md0; it wants to partition the device. I want to use /dev/md0 as >> an LVM container, so I don't want to create a partition; a partition >> just means one more thing I have to resize if I want to add to the RAID >> later. > > That is just not true. Even stronger: you currently cannot partition a > RAID device (see e.g. #392042, #417973). > You need to select the RAID volume and set it to "Use as physical volume > for LVM"; then return to the main partman menu and select "Configure > LVM". This will do exactly what you want. I did exactly that, and received the error below, suggesting to me that the installer had tried to partition the device. Apparently I just ran into the known issue. Thanks for the information. >> Also, when attempting to create the partition on the RAID, I got an >> error along the lines of "Failed to tell the kernel about the new >> partitions on /dev/md0". > > That is a known issue. See BRs referred to above. Ah; that issue apparently misled me into believing that d-i had partitioned /dev/md0. - Josh Triplett
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