Bug 109710

Summary:	Anaconda grabs partitions out of exported VGs
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Nick (Gunnar) Bluth <bluth>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Nick (Gunnar) Bluth 2003-11-11 06:53:23 UTC

Description of problem: 
Decided to switch back from Gentoo to Fedora yesterday, so I moved 
all needed data (homedirs, working dirs, VMware VMs, ...) on an 
existing VG (2 whole HDDs, 1 partition, ~86 GB in linear mode). 
Disk Druid saw the partition (sdd1), but I didn't touch it at all. 
 
You can imagine how shocked I've been when lvscan listed it in the 
new "Rootvg" I created during installation! 
Even reforced the three slices into a new VG (lvcreate -Z, mke2fs 
-S) again, but fsck is running since ~7 hours now... 
 
Currently, I'm rescanning ~120 GB of DDS backup tapes (well, Arkeia 
has also been on that VG...), hoping I'll get at least parts of the 
stuff back.... =:-(((( 
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
core 1 
 
How reproducible: 
Believe me, I'll not try to reproduce that. 
 
Steps to Reproduce: 
1. Install having an exported VG spaning over 2 whole disks and 1 
partition 
2. Don't touch them in Disk Druid 
3. Try to re-import the VG 
   
Actual results: 
*$!&% 
 
Expected results: 
The VG is available again. 
 
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Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-10-05 15:34:37 UTC

With the newer LVM set up in the 2.6 kernel, I don't think that this
can occur anymore.