I have an ibook G4 with linux and Mac OS X installed and a free partition. I want to use evms to use the free area. However, evms uses the dos segment manager by default. Deleting /lib/evms/2.5.5/dos-1.1.16.so circumvents the problem (the mac segment manager is used then), but does not feel to be the right solution.
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Using evmsn, you can go to Actions->Add and then "Add segment manager", did you try that?
(In reply to comment #4) > Using evmsn, you can go to Actions->Add and then "Add segment manager", > did you try that? yes - that is only available for harddrives that are not in use. I think the solution would be, that evms detects that there is a mac partition map and therefore uses the mac segment manager. Maybe changing the order of segment managers being tested could work.
I don't completely get it. You started with a LiveCD, called evms{n,gui} and created a new segment? And then, did you add a lvm2-volume-manager? At which point did it "fail"? Could you describe a bit the steps, please? The problem is that you might need the dos segment manager for external hd's for example so removing it isn't really a good solution.
(In reply to comment #6) > I don't completely get it. > You started with a LiveCD, called evms{n,gui} and created a new segment? And > then, did you add a lvm2-volume-manager? At which point did it "fail"? Could > you describe a bit the steps, please? I installed Gentoo a while ago and had 35GB Linux and 35GB Mac OS X. As I am not using Mac OS X much anymore I decided to delete all the unnecessary parts and shrinked (parted) the Mac OS X partition. Now, I have one Linux partition with my current system, which is booted (hda5), one Mac OS X partition (hda3) and one empty partition currently named linux2 (hda7), i.e. my harddisk is already partitioned. I want now to add hda7 to an evms container and then move my system from hda5 into the volumes coming from that container. Once migrated I want to add hda5 to the container and then gradually expand my volumes as needed. The problem discussed here is, that evms uses the dos segment manager and only the mac segment manager when I delete the dos segment manager. In addition to that the partition numbering of the mac segment manager is not correct (see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159838) > The problem is that you might need the dos segment manager for external hd's > for example so removing it isn't really a good solution. I completely agree on that! thx for the fast reactions! partition list: # mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda /dev/hda # type name length base ( size ) system /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/hda2 Apple_Free Extra 262144 @ 64 (128.0M) Free space /dev/hda3 Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_1 29034668 @ 262208 ( 13.8G) HFS /dev/hda4 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @ 78150808 (800.0k) NewWorld bootblock /dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 linux1 73400320 @ 78152408 ( 35.0G) Linux native /dev/hda6 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 4748760 @ 151552728 ( 2.3G) Linux swap /dev/hda7 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 linux2 48853932 @ 29296876 ( 23.3G) Linux native
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