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Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation



Hello,
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:26:47AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Well, I was told differently by a Debian Developer on Linuxtag, who
> 
> Who was it ? 

Martin Michlmayr.

> > Well, lvm works nicly. The only "trick" is to set it up on the command
> > line during the install (i.e., leave the gui for that). There are some
> > minor issues in some tools (#281925 and #287670), but they can be
> > easily worked around during operation. (I have not tried to reduce the
> > size of a LV, though).
> 
> Ah, didn't try any of those too, just created the LVM partitions. I don't care
> strongly enough to pursue this though, so you are welcome to take this on you
> shoulder and become de facto LVM-on-powerpc maintainer. I will code the parted
> part of it once a consensus is reached about this with upstream. Please CC me
> (or debian-powerpc) on any such discussion though

This is far beyond my coding power (and my time). 

> Indeed. Please go ahead and fill a bug report against partman, or start the
> discussion about this with the lvm-tools maintainers.

I made an installation report (which prompted above conversation). I
can clone it to partman, if you think it is sensible.

Greetings

         Helge

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