On 1/30/08, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo <arifsaha@xxxxxxxxx> 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
