Robert P. J. Day wrote:
historically, i've always "upgraded" my FC systems simply doing a
fresh install over top of the existing filesystem structure, leaving
/home where it is and just preserving the few other things i cared
about. but that was always with systems that used simple physical and
logical partitioning.
can i do the same thing with a system using LVM? will the install
still see all the logical volumes and let me preserve the ones i care
about? thanks.
rday
The short answer is yes. However, see
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208947
for one instance of a problem.
I have a test system which is LV over software raid 5 and have been
testing multiple linux distributions on it for over a year now. The
current Debian, SuSE, Mandriva and FC distros will see the LVs at
install time as long as you select manual or expert partitioning. All
will also allow you to create the LV from your existing
drives/paritions. I reuse the LVs, rename the LVs, reformat them, mount
them without formatting (I have /home on an LV and use it for all FC
test installs), etc, and never have had a problem until FC6T3 and
beyond. There is a strong possibility that 208947 is a hardware
problem, but no diagnostic shows it and I can get a completely normal
FC6 or current Rawhide installation as long as FC5 or a non-FC/RHEL
distro was booted last.
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