On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Tim Edwards wrote:
We're currently using LVM devices as the disks for Xen VMs. The LVM volume (say /dev/xenvolumes/vm01_datadisk) will come through in the VM as a normal disk (say /dev/hdd).
What we'd like to do is have our kickstarts create a filesystem on /dev/hdd without first creating a /dev/hdd1. I can do this manually (mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdd; mount /dev/hdd /somewhere) after the install but is there a way for kickstart's partitioning to do this? Alternatively would it work to try and do it in the %post section in the kickstart?
I did something like this for the ESX installer (Weasel) to make our version of kickstart work with virtual disks. There is a 'virtualdisk' command which sets up the virtual disk where all of the Console OS partitions are created (ie. /, /var/log, swap, etc.), and also the 'part' command takes a flag called '--onvirtualdisk=' which then specifies the volume on which the partitions are created.
The difference in our case is that the Console OS is attached when the machine boots, so you end up with all of your normal system mount points (except /boot) residing inside of the virtual disk. What ends up being kind of neat about it is that you can install multiple copies of the OS onto the system and just point the machine to use whichever virtual disk you want the system directories to come from. It's basically a multi-boot machine without the clutter of having different partitions on the physical disk.
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