Pressing the "Create New Logical Volume" button when viewing the logical view of a volume group creates a new file system on the associated partition without first notifying users that they are about to lose ALL their data on that partition. For people who are not LVM experts, it is reasonable to assume that as long as physical volumes are not changed, no data should be lost. So, imagine my surprise when I discovered that the entire contents of my home directory were wiped out without any warning. (Fortunately, I had a backup.) I believe that elsewhere system-config-lvm does warn about losing data.
FYI: system-config-lvm v1.1.1
Is this still an issue in F9? We still have v1.1.1 there. This seems pretty serious--adding to F9Blocker. Upstream should either start maintaining and fixing this tool, or we should remove it from Fedora completely--or at least not install it by default.
I'm marking this as needinfo. We need to know if this still happens with Fedora 9's system-config-lvm. If no response in a few days we'll likely close this bug, or at least remove it from the blocker list.
In one test, it appears to only use free space, not overwrite existing space.
I have never been able to reproduce this issue. In addition, I know this application is very popular and heavily used - I speak with users at conferences often, as well as RHEL customers who use it for complex cluster environments. If this were an issue, I would be pounded with bugs on it, so marking NOTABUG
(In reply to comment #5) > I have never been able to reproduce this issue. In addition, I know this > application is very popular and heavily used - I speak with users at conferences > often, as well as RHEL customers who use it for complex cluster environments. If > this were an issue, I would be pounded with bugs on it, so marking NOTABUG What happens when you press the "Create New Logical Volume" button when viewing the logical view of a volume group using `system-config-lvm'? Please do this on the partition that contains your home directory.