On 1/30/08, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo <arifsaha(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi!
I am working on a Fedora 8 kickstart installation that should
use existing LVM logical volume as home partition. However, it
keep failing with an error like this:
> Could not allocate requested partitions:
>
> Adding this partition would not leave enough disk space
> for already allocated logical volumes in 2008AF_data..
>
> Press 'OK' to exit the installer.
* 2008AF_data is the name of volume group
The kickstart code dealing with partition is quoted below:
clearpart --all --drives=sda
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=128
part pv.1 --size=1536 --grow --ondisk=sda
volgroup 2008A6_work pv.1
logvol swap --fstype swap --name=2008A6_swap --vgname=2008A6_work --size=512
logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=2008A6_var --vgname=2008A6_work --size=512
logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=2008A6_root --vgname=2008A6_work --size=3904
part pv.2 --noformat --onpart sdb1
volgroup 2008AF_data pv.2 --noformat --useexisting
logvol /home --noformat --useexisting --name=2008AF_home --vgname=2008AF_data --fstype
ext3
* 2008AF_home is the name of logical volume to be reused
I already tried without --useexisting, with estimated size (not
accurate, but I added --grow), without --fstype, etc. same
error.
Any idea what's wrong?
For starters, you're using "clearpart --all" which will erase all your
existing partitions. I think your part pv.1 should use --onpart rather
than --ondisk and you might need --useexisting on the volgroup line.
For reference here is a disk layout I've successfully used to put
everything onto existing lvm partitions:
clearpart --none
part /boot --fstype ext3 --onpart=/dev/sda2
part pv.01 --onpart=/dev/sda5
volgroup privg pv.01 --useexisting
logvol / --fstype ext3 --useexisting --name=priroot
--vgname=privg --grow --size=6000
logvol /var --fstype ext3 --useexisting --name=privar
--vgname=privg --size=1024
logvol swap --fstype swap --useexisting --name=priswap
--vgname=privg --size=1024
Regards,
Chris