for several releases now, i've moved up to the next release by just installing over top of the existing partitions, keeping them and their mount points, leaving things like /home unformatted, and restoring a few critical files like /etc/{passwd,group,shadow}, that sort of thing.
can i do the same thing with logical volumes? will the install program recognize my current LVM configuration and let me preserve what i want?
You should be able to. The installer loads up the software RAID and LVM drivers, so it should recognize your LVM config and allow you to preserve everything.
HOWEVER, I should add that my RAID array wasn't fully recognized by the installer. It consists of 3 internal ATA drives and two external FireWire drives, and despite loading the ieee1394 driver and spb2 driver, the FireWire drives didn't show up in Disk Druid (but were accessible by dropping to CLI).
I believe if your LVM is all laid across internal ATA drives, you shouldn't have a problem, but ymmv...
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