Bug#499285: debian-installer: A reinstall of a machine that used LVM over software RAID had partitioning problems
On Saturday 20 September 2008 09:35, Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org> wrote:
> > But having LVM enabled it was unable to cease all kernel access to the
> > partitions for the purpose of getting the kernel to recognise the new
> > partitions I created (I decided I wanted a slightly different RAID
> > installation for the rebuild).
>
> Did you remove all Logical Volumes, Volume Groups and Physical Volumes
> before changing the RAID 1 partitions?
No. There were many LVs and it seemed a lot easier to just remove the RAID
devices.
> partman have a locking mechanism that is already used for crypto that
> prevent such problems by not allowing partitions in use to be changed.
> Unfortunately, the changes required to use this mechanism for RAID are
> too invasive for Lenny (two d-i components needs to be merged before
> adding the feature).
OK.
I'm happy for this one to be fixed in Lenny+1.
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