On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 09:50:29AM +0000, g4sra wrote:

> Replying on phone, hope this reads OK<br><br>-------- Original
> Message --------<br>On 24 Mar 2025, 02:58, Ralph Ronnquist &lt;
> ...

The above was just my post so it can be snipped.

> I cannot find a way to have Partman offer LUKS under LVM, it wants
> it the other way round. Also not having F2FS recognised or offered
> in any of its menus for 'use as' which is required to select the
> mountpoint.<br><br>
> I have many times previously worked through the partitioner with
> pre-existing partitions and data on ext4 fs and not destroyed any of
> it.<br><br>
> The frustrating thing is the functionality is all there. An
> initramfs for a stock kernel (F2FS not compiled in) broke. With
> nothing to loose I resorted to installation media in recovery mode
> and it worked perfectly, unlocking LUKS, scanning LVM, and mounting
> all partitions correctly.<br><br>
> NB. For all of the above, a manual 'modprobe f2fs' in an alt
> terminal is required first.<br>

Yes, you might not consider your setup unusual but I think the partman
developers would probably disagree :) Even I want to think of it as a
slightly off the mainstream setup. Anyhow good that you worked it out!

Ralph.