Debian Bug report logs - #247342
LVM devices presented in strange way

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: LVM devices presented in strange way

Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 17:06:01 +0100

Package: partman

I created some LVM devices, and they were presented in partman like
this:

   /dev/tbm/home - 5.3 GB
   >      #1   5.3 GB   f xfs        /home
   /dev/tbm/media - 9.6 GB
   >      #1   9.6 GB   f reiserfs   /media

When I choose the first entry (/dev/tbm/home - 5.3 GB), I would get
the standard warning about partitioning a whole device... however,
/dev/tbm/home is correct... it's comparable to /dev/hda1, rather than
/dev/hda.  I think it would be better to represent them like this:

   /dev/tbm/home  - 5.3 GB  f  xfs       /home
   /dev/tbm/media - 9.6 GB  f  reiserfs  /media

or probably:

   /dev/tbm
          home      5.3 GB   f xfs        /home
          media     9.6 GB   f reiserfs   /media

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com

Message #10 received at 247342@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

To: 247342@bugs.debian.org

Subject: and RAID

Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 23:49:09 +0100

In the case of RAID, it looks even weirder because the size is
displayed as 0.0 B:

  /dev/md/0 - 0.0 B Software RAID device                       
  >      #1   4.9 GB                                           

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com

Message #15 received at 247342@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

To: 247342@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#247342: and RAID

Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 03:55:40 +0100

* tbm <tbm@cyrius.com> [2004-05-04 23:49]:
> In the case of RAID, it looks even weirder because the size is
> displayed as 0.0 B:

But the fact that the size is zero is a (documented) bug in partman-md.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com

Message #20 received at 247342@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>

To: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>, 247342@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#247342: LVM devices presented in strange way

Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 11:55:23 +0300

severity 247342 wishlist
thanks

On  4.V.2004 at 17:06 (+0100) Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> 
> I created some LVM devices, and they were presented in partman like
> this:
> 
>    /dev/tbm/home - 5.3 GB
>    >      #1   5.3 GB   f xfs        /home
>    /dev/tbm/media - 9.6 GB
>    >      #1   9.6 GB   f reiserfs   /media
> 
> When I choose the first entry (/dev/tbm/home - 5.3 GB), I would get
> the standard warning about partitioning a whole device... however,
> /dev/tbm/home is correct... it's comparable to /dev/hda1, rather than
> /dev/hda.

For parted it is a partitionable device.  partman-lvm automatically
creates a loop "partition table" in it (i.e. says parted not to use
partition table).

> I think it would be better to represent them like this:
> 
>    /dev/tbm/home  - 5.3 GB  f  xfs       /home
>    /dev/tbm/media - 9.6 GB  f  reiserfs  /media
> 
> or probably:
> 
>    /dev/tbm
>           home      5.3 GB   f xfs        /home
>           media     9.6 GB   f reiserfs   /media

You are right.  I am not sure that I will have time to fix this before
the release of sarge as it seams that a lot of things need to be done
before that.

Anton Zinoviev

Message #27 received at 247342@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

To: Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>

Cc: 247342@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#247342: LVM devices presented in strange way

Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 14:36:58 +0100

* Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> [2004-05-05 11:55]:
> >    /dev/tbm
> >           home      5.3 GB   f xfs        /home
> >           media     9.6 GB   f reiserfs   /media
> 
> You are right.  I am not sure that I will have time to fix this before
> the release of sarge as it seams that a lot of things need to be done
> before that.

Yeah, I realized the same after looking at the code.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com

Message #32 received at 247342@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

To: Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>

Cc: 247342@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#247342: LVM devices presented in strange way

Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 19:54:38 +0100

* Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> [2004-05-05 11:55]:
> For parted it is a partitionable device.  partman-lvm automatically
> creates a loop "partition table" in it (i.e. says parted not to use
> partition table).

Well, it shouldn't allow this... I just tried this, and created a
"primary partition" on the LVM LV... when parted tried to format it,
it errored out at the end: tune2fs: Not a directory while trying to
open /dev/tbm/media/part1

Only /dev/tbm/media exists (obviously, since this is how LVM works).
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com

Message #39 received at 247342@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Balazic <robinud@volja.net>

To: 247342@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Duplicate of 303914 ?

Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:59:50 +0200

This looks like a duplicate of bug 303914.

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Message #44 received at 247342@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>

To: David Balazic <robinud@volja.net>, 247342@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#247342: Duplicate of 303914 ?

Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:03:51 +0200

On Thursday 14 April 2005 16:59, David Balazic wrote:
> This looks like a duplicate of bug 303914.

Only partly. The presentation of LVM and RAID partitions on partman's main 
screen (which was the original subject of the report) could still be 
improved.

You are correct in that the bug that partman allowed loop devices to be 
partitioned is now fixed with 303914.

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