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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: Authentication is required to mount /dev/fedora_localhost-live/home
From:       Mike Wright <nobody () nospam ! hostisimo ! com>
Date:       2020-02-04 1:19:47
Message-ID: ae6d9362-3390-1ce3-5ecf-cf18901c8bb4 () nospam ! hostisimo ! com
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On 2/3/20 4:52 PM, Tony Nelson wrote:
> On 20-02-03 17:56:59, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>   ...
>> $ sudo pvs
>>   PV         VG                    Fmt  Attr PSize    PFree
>>   /dev/sda3  fedora_localhost-live lvm2 a--  <128.00g <17.80g
>>   /dev/sda4  fedora_localhost-live lvm2 a--   <16.00g <16.00g
>> $
>   ...
> 
> It's very unusual to have two partitions on the same device provide
> Physical Volumes for a single Volume Group.  It may be that none of
> the space on sda4 is in use, and it might be removed and the space
> used for something (like extending sda5).
> 
> Earlier you showed the output of `mount` and the output of `lvdisplay`.
> fedora_localhost-live/home does not appear to be in use, though swap
> and root are used.  Whatever is asking for a password for home appears
> to be failing.  Possibly any password would work as well.  Mounting
> home might show that it is empty and simply a waste of 33 GB.
> 
> This all seems confused enough that starting over might be best.

Hi Tony,

Not unusual to me.  I play a lot with VMs, containers, and data 
collections.  I found the learning curve/overhead in time, etc with 
BTRFS and ZFS too demanding of my resources, whereas a basic 
understanding of LVM made my life soooo much easier.  Drives are so 
large now that I often partition them into 50G chunks, tag them as PVs, 
and hand them out to my VGs as needed initially or to extend/expand.  I 
don't know how scalable my approach is but it's worked well for me so far.

:m
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