just for my own amusement, i was playing with reinstalling on the
aforementioned laptop that already has an LVM partitioning setup, and
i was curious about what i can and can't delete en masse.
/dev/hda
/dev/hda1 ext3
/dev/hda2 LVM PV
/dev/hda3 LVM PV
...
LVM Volume Groups
users (hda2)
...
system (hda3)
...
now if i select /dev/hda and click "Delete", that would let me
delete *all* partitions on the drive (according to the dialog,
anyway).
if i select one of the defined volume groups (in my case, "users" or
"system") and click "Delete", i apparently get the chance to delete
that entire volume group *and* all of its logical volumes. so that's
consistent.
but if i select "LVM Volume Groups" from the list, then "Delete" is
just ignored. perhaps this is a safety feature, but it would seem to
make more sense if i then got the chance to delete *all* volume
groups, to be consistent with the other behaviour. who's to say i
don't want to just blast every volume group on my machine so i don't
have to do it manually, VG by VG?
(and, as an extreme, might i not be allowed to select "Hard Drives"
and wipe everything off of all of the drives? sure, why not?)
thoughts?
rday
