[Bug 72600] GParted does not recognize my LVM partitions

[Chris Heeney]

Public bug reported:

First, I am just learning Linux so please be gentle ;-)

This bug seems to be similar to bug #67130 by I don't think the
workaround helps in my case or maybe I just need more details. Also,
there seems to be additional problems with Gparted recognizing my
logical partitions.

Gparted in "Prepare partitions" does not seem to recognize my LVM partition. It displays two partitions:
1)  /dev/hda1 is pointing to my boot and swap partition and is recognized as a ext3 filesystem. It has a flag of "boot".
2) /dev/hda2 filesystem is "unknown" with a flag of "lvm"

I have a single 40GB harddrive with one Volume Group defined using LVM2:
VolGroup00. Within this volume group I have defined four Logical
Volumes: LogVol00, LogVol01, openSUSE, and ubuntu.

"/dev/hda1" is assigned to LogVol01 and "/dev/hda2" is assigned to
LogVol00.

- LogVol01 is the /boot partition and used as the swap partition for all OS's.
- LogVol00 is a 10GB partition with Fedora Core installed on it.
- openSUSE is another 10GB partition with openSUSE 10.2 Beta 2 installed on it.
- Ubuntu is another 10GB partition and I am trying to install ubuntu 6.10 to it.

I was hoping that I would be able to edit the partition table manually
to point to the "ubuntu" logical partition but I eventually run into the
problem identified in bug #61730.

Q1) Why does GParted not display all of my logical partitions?

Q2) Is this a bug or have I just not done something properly?

Q3) If this is a bug, Is there a workaround available to get ubuntu to
install on this logical partition or should

Thanks,

Chris

** Affects: gparted (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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GParted does not recognize my LVM partitions
https://launchpad.net/bugs/72600