PVcreate in extended logical partitions
Jon Burgess
jburgess at uklinux.net
Fri Dec 9 18:45:20 UTC 2005
Darwin H. Webb wrote:
> The problem was that the partition table was not being (written) and
> re-loaded.
...
> So I would like someone to verify that the anaconda install routine
> using the disk druid graphic partitioner can create LVM items on the
> extended logical partitions because when I used it a few months ago in
> FC4 it would not let me create one.
Repartitioning in FC4 was seriously broken.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160693
This bug meant that the partition table was written to the disk, but was
not re-read correctly. This caused all kinds of issues with the
following lvm and formatting steps.
The bug is fixed in fc5t1, but i've not got around to testing it.
Jon
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