I've seen this thread from December and I have a questiona about LVM
definition on kickstart files.

Is it posible to define the partition where the volgroup will be created
on a already existing device with the --onpart option?. For example:

part pv.01 --onpart hda1
volgroup vg.01 pv.01
logvol /home --size 5120 --fstype ext3 --name homevol --vgname vg.01
logvol / --size 10240 --grow --fstype ext3 --name tmpvol --vgname vg.01
....

Or should I use a previusly cleared disk (with the "clearpart
--ondisk=hda" directive) to assing a partition to a volume group? (as in
the Michel example with: part pv.hda --size 5120 --grow)

Thanks for any help or referral

Jorge





On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 22:47, Michel Jouvin wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> Hier is an example :
> 
> part /boot --size 64 --asprimary --fstype ext2 --ondisk hda
> part swap --size 1024 --asprimary --fstype swap --ondisk hda --recommended
> part pv.hda --size 5120 --grow
> volgroup vg.01 pv.hda
> logvol /afscache --size 500 --fstype ext3 --name afsvol --vgname vg.01
> logvol /home --size 512 --fstype ext3 --name homevol --vgname vg.01
> logvol / --size 5120 --fstype ext3 --name rootvol --vgname vg.01
> logvol /scratch --size 1024 --fstype ext3 --name scratchvol --vgname vg.01
> logvol /tmp --size 512 --fstype ext3 --name tmpvol --vgname vg.01
> logvol /var --size 1024 --fstype ext3 --name varvol --vgname vg.01
> 
> 
> 
> Michel
> 
> --On lundi 12 décembre 2005 07:35 +1000 Michael Mansour <[log in to unmask]> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to build the following filesystem structure from kickstart:
> >
> > /dev/sda9              1032072    439768    539876  45% /
> > /dev/sda1                99134     11378     82637  13% /boot
> > none                    517360         0    517360   0% /dev/shm
> > /dev/sda3              3051952   2218300    678620  77% /home
> > /dev/sda7              1032072     17696    961948   2% /opt
> > /dev/sda10              507732     10555    470964   3% /tmp
> > /dev/sda2              3096336   2103128    835924  72% /usr
> > /dev/sda8              1032072     17800    961844   2% /usr/local
> > /dev/sda6              2064192    108300   1851036   6% /var
> >
> > and swap as:
> >
> > /dev/sda5                               partition       2097128 160     -1
> >
> > but creating them all as LVM volumes with LV's (in ext3).
> >
> > I have read the kickstart options here:
> >
> > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guid
> > e/s1-kickstart2-options.html#S2-KICKSTART2-OPTIONS-PART-EXAMPLES
> >
> > but I *don't* need RAID, as the "sda" device above is actually a 13.5Gb
> > virtual LUN (a SAN disk) presented to the host, with underlying RAID
> > technology which Linux doesn't need to know about. Note this is also a
> > "boot off SAN" setup which I've built manually on 3 other Linux blades,
> > but I'm now working on kickstarting their builds.
> >
> > Any help in the kickstart options I need to use is much appreciated.
> >
> > Michael.
> 
> 
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