I currently have FC5 installed and I'm going to install FC7 from the live cd. I was going to create a separate home partition using this tutorial http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome so I could keep my personal stuff from being wiped out when I install FC7. But when I tried Gparted from the live Ubuntu CD apparantly gparted doesn't recognize the LV2 filesystem so I was thrown for a loop. I presently have the default Fedora partion of one boot partition(ext3) and a root and swap partition(LVM2).
Is there any other partition tool that will work with LVM2?
Or is there a way to make the root LVM2 partition ext3 type.

I've never partitioned a drive before. And I am lost when it comes to Logical Volume Management?

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Ok I found this link http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=154874
and decided to give it a try. However, once I try to umount /mnt/sysimage
I get the message "Device or resource busy". I tried the umount -l option and even the fuser -km to /mnt/sysimage still same message.

This is frustrating. Instead of using rescue mode could I some how create a new LVM2 partition using a live cd that unmounts the root filesystem?

Any ideas.

Thanks.

For what you want to do, why bother? Fedora installations, if you tell it to do an "upgrade," will not change anything in your home directory except version-specific settings in a few hidden files.

If you're really worried, create a dump file of /home and copy it to a CD or DVD, but I've never had any problem upgrading, and I've gone from FC3->FC4->FC5->FC6->F7 over the last five years.

(Of course, having a good backup is, as always, a good thing to have.)