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zhentar

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Registered: 2010-03-05

Posts: 5

Telling the installer to use rest of free space in lvm for a partition

I am trying to set up lvm and after setting / and swap I want the rest to go to /home but the installer requires a set size amount.  Ive tried deducing the free space by math, but get insufficient extant errors.  Is there a way to tell the block device manager to just use the remaining free space a-la 100%FREE or something of the sort?

Last edited by zhentar (2010-03-05 22:34:45)

ZaQ

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Registered: 2009-12-12

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Re: Telling the installer to use rest of free space in lvm for a partition

if main is the name of your lvm:

lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n home main

But you can also extend the partition later: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lvm

Last edited by ZaQ (2010-03-05 23:19:36)

zhentar

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Registered: 2010-03-05

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Re: Telling the installer to use rest of free space in lvm for a partition

thats using the command line way,  which I already know to do that, but the installation setup requires you to use the ncurses way since you have to configure the system through the GUI interface to move onto package selection.  Or would I just leave /dev/sda2 as raw->no_fs as well as the dm-crypt and the lvm pool blank in the mountpoint manager and just configure the mountpoints for root, home and swap?
You see the installation guides arent up to date and its not at all clear how to use set it up in the command line when you are still be forced to use the ncurses manager to do the rest.
I am asking if the ncurses setup system gives you a way to do that

tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: Telling the installer to use rest of free space in lvm for a partition

The installer does not include lvm options. The lvm wiki page that ZaQ linked to provides details about installing Arch on lvm.

zhentar

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Registered: 2010-03-05

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Re: Telling the installer to use rest of free space in lvm for a partition

I did follow those directions, but I still have to use the GUI to map the devices or the select packages part wont let me continue.  Im just saying, the lvm wiki is outdated and doesn't integrate into the installation guide well.

tomk

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Re: Telling the installer to use rest of free space in lvm for a partition

It's a wiki - please feel free to update it as required.