max size with LVM volumes?

22 Jun 2004

      Hello there,

I'm trying to set up a disk as follows:

/dev/hda1:				/					2GB
/dev/hda2: 				swap				auto size
/dev/hda3: lvm "system"					max (rest of disk)
	/dev/sys/var_lv: 	/var					200MB
	/dev/sys/home_lv:	/home				max (rest of LVM space)

I would think this would be a pretty common arrangement (e.g. to have 
LVM fill a disk, and then a volume within that fill the LVM space), 
but for some reason the "/home" partition always ends up being of 
"unknown" size.

Is there any way to get this to work, or am I hosed?

Thanks!

Here's the relevant section of my control file:
    <partitioning config:type="list">
      <drive>
        <device>/dev/hda</device>
        <use>all</use>
        <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize>
        <partitions config:type="list">
          <partition>
            <mount>/</mount>
            <size>2GB</size>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            131
            primary
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <mount>swap</mount>
            <size>auto</size>
            <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
            130
            primary
          </partition>
          <partition>
            system
            <size>max</size>
            primary
          </partition>
        </partitions>
      </drive>
      <drive>
        <use>all</use>
        <device>/dev/system</device>
        true
        <partitions config:type="list">
                <partition>
                    <filesystem 
config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
                        var_lv
                        <mount>/var</mount>
                        <size>200mb</size>
                </partition>
                <partition>
                        <filesystem 
config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
                        home_lv
                        <mount>/home</mount>
                        <size>max</size>
                        </partition>
                </partitions>
                <pesize>4M</pesize>
        </drive>
    </partitioning>

                                 Dave C

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