[arch-releng] LVM Installation Issues

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Thu, 13 May 2010 15:24:55 +0200
Lukas Grässlin <lukasgraesslin at gmx.de> wrote:

> On 05/13/2010 02:51 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 May 2010 14:44:34 +0200
> > Lukas Grässlin <lukasgraesslin at gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi there again :)
> >>
> >> I forgot another thing:
> >> If I have two disks and I want to use the secons disk completely as
> >> PV I normally don't need a partition on that disk, i just do:
> >>
> >> pvcreate /dev/sdb and that's it.
> >>
> >> In AIF I have to create a partition that fits the complet disk
> >> size.
> >>
> >> Of course, thats no problem. I just wanted to told this to you ;)
> >>
> > 
> > no you don't.
> > afaik, aif lets you do what you want.
> > 
> > Dieter
> 
> Mh sorry, my fault. With the latest iso I also can use entire disks as
> PV. Alright ;)
> 
> Another thing I just yet encountered is, that when creating a lv if I
> enter a greater value than the vg size is (the thing from my first
> post in this thread) of course the creating fails. AIF tells me "Error
> creating...etc".
> So far, so good, but if I klick "Enter" it tries again and again to
> create the lv and fails of course. I'm in a loop and only can exit the
> installer.
> 

use the rollback feature.
Dieter