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hhtmp88
February 11th, 2014, 11:43 AM
Dear all,

During installation of UbuntuKylin13.10 ("ubuntukylin-13.10-desktop-amd64.iso"), I set to partition the 128GB SSD into:
sda1: / --------------------- 30GB, ext4
sda2: /home ---------------- 85GB, ext4
sda3: Linux-swap -------------------- 4.24GB


After installation, the partitions became:
/dev/sda1: /boot ------------------ 243MB, ext2 (Flag:boot)
/dev/sda2: extended ------------- 119GB
/dev/sda5: ubuntukylin-vg ----- 119GB (Flag:lvm)

which completely differs from what I want!

What's wrong?
Are there any way to convert the LVM partition back into a common one?

Thanks for any kind of help!

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* someone tell me:
LVM: Logical Volume Manager(逻辑卷管理) 能动态扩增和缩小
vg: volume group --卷组

hhtmp88
February 13th, 2014, 08:54 AM
no one can help?

robnils
February 13th, 2014, 11:34 AM
What about deleting the partition and starting over? If you just installed it then you have nothing to lose, right? I have a LVM partition from a previous Fedora install that won't go away.. GParted makes odd threats when I attempt to delete it and since this partition is one of several on a 750 GB laptop, I'm a little nervous just chancing it. Does anyone know if it's okay to just delete the partition? I have something like

sda3/
-> one partition
-> lvm
-> ubuntu
sda4/windows
etc

I have a feeling deleting the lvm requires the deletion of the entire group,sda3, is that right? I can take a screen shot if helps but this isn't my thread...