At Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:51:57 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Answering here to all three replies, and thanks for all of them! I think
> it should have been clear from my wording that I want to install from
> scratch and wipe the existing OS. I do not want to dualboot or "save"
> anything (or much) from the existing OS. I just want to reuse the existing
> LVM structure with all the existing guests and wasn't sure if this would
> be easily provided by the install wizard or if I needed to do something
> special. Or if I should just install via kickstart reusing the original
> kickstart file with slightly altered options (e.g. don't create volumes,
> just format the correct ones - which might be a tricky and easily mistaken
> one). So, as I understand, a normal install with the custom disk layout
> option should be able to reuse the LVM as I want it, right? Thanks.
Yes. Just be sure to reformat things like the / and
/boot file systems (/usr and /var if those are separate). You can leave
/home and and *data* file system alone.
>
> Kai
>
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