I think I remember from my Red Hat System Administration class that Kickstart cannot configure LVM. It would have to be done in the %pre section. But that does give me food for thought. Thanks! Andrew > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Pianta [mailto:pantz@xxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 10:39 AM > To: Discussion list about Kickstart > Subject: Re: Need advice about partitioning > > On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 08:33 -0700, Robinson, Andrew W. wrote: > > > 1. Can I "guide" Kickstart to lay out the disk the way I want? Or > > would I need to run fdisk in the %pre section to gain that > > much control? > > see below > > > 1. Do I need this much control? Does it really matter how the > > partitions are laid out relative to each other if I expect to > > shift space between them later with parted? > > see below > > > 1. Am I fixated on the wrong idea? Is there another way to think > > about this disk layout altogether? > > Hi Andrew, > > I would recommend you go with LVM for setting up your disks. > > It has been around for long enough now, and been used in many production > environments so I believe it has reached 'mature' status. It will give > you the flexibility that you are looking for and you won't need to use > parted later to mess around with growing/shrinking partitions. LVM > allows you to add/remove/grow/shrink partitions very easily and safely. > > The only restriction that I am aware of is that you shouldn't setup > your /boot partition on LVM. But that is not really a problem - you > setup a 'primary' partition for /boot and then you can setup the rest of > the drive as a 'logical group' that would contain your 'logical volumes' > such as /, /var, /opt, /extra, etc. > > If you ever need more space in your /var logical volume, then with the > LVM tools you can easily bump up the size if you remembered to leave > yourself some free space in the logical group. (like you originally > planned with the /extra partition) > > Kickstarting LVM is probably easier done by using 'disk druid' during a > regular gui install and then snipping the config out of the anaconda- > ks.cfg file that is created in /root after the install is finished. Or > maybe the system-config-kickstart tool can easily configure LVM > partitions? > > I hope that gives you some food for thought to munch on :) > > pantz > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
