Bug#713831: The Debian Installer does not recognize my encrypted LVM setup
package: partitioner
version: 0.50
I basically have my computer with an encrypted LVM setup. I recently
tanked my system and need to reinstall Debian.
The problem is that partman does not recognize that I have an encrypted
LVM. All I see in the partitioning section is two partitions /dev/sda1
to which the unencrypted /boot will be mounted and /dev/sda2 which is
the encrypted LVM. What I need to do to reinstall is to reformat the
logical volume corresponding to swap as swap and the logical volume that
will be mounted to / as ext4 while leaving all other logical volumes alone.
Because Anaconda unlike partman recognizes my encrypted LVM setup I can
easily do that when installing Fedora and am in fact writing this very
bug report from a Fedora box. Partman on the other hand has not been
helpful. It offers me to set up encryption and to set up LVM but that
does it anew for those that don't already have that. I already have an
encrypted LVM and want to use that. I don't want to have redo my whole
setup anew. I wish that the Debian Installer and Partman would be able
to recognize and let me plug into my current setup just like Anaconda does.
I am not alone in my problems either and luckily workarounds exist but
they are awkward ones. I can do them if I really need to though I really
rather wouldn't. Other less experienced users may not be able to. Nor
should they have to. This is 2013 for crying out loud. Anyway here's the
link from another person with this issue:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/debian-installer-doesn%27t-recognise-existing-encrypted-partition-930891/
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