Here is an example of anaconda creating the LV as reported in anaconda-ks.cfg after an interactive installation: # The following is the partition information you requested # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is # not guaranteed to work #clearpart --all --drives=cciss/c0d0,cciss/c0d1 #part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=cciss/c0d0 #part pv.4 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=cciss/c0d1 #part pv.3 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=cciss/c0d0 #volgroup VolGroup01 --pesize=32768 pv.4 pv.3 #logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup01 --size=1000 --grow --maxsize=1984 #logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup01 --size=1024 --grow Greg Caetano HP TSG Linux Solutions Alliances Engineering Chicago, IL greg.caetano@xxxxxx Red Hat Certified Engineer RHCE#803004972711193 -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jan Michael Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:15 AM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: lvm, creation of physical volumes Hello kickstart mailing list, my questions regards the creation of physical volumes via lvm. I specified the following disk layout in my kickstart file: 26 clearpart --all --drives cciss/c0d0 --initlabel 27 28 part /boot --size 100 --ondisk cciss/c0d0 --fstype ext3 29 part / --size 7168 --ondisk cciss/c0d0 --fstype ext3 30 part swap --size 2048 --ondisk cciss/c0d0 --fstype swap 31 part pv.00 --size 1024 --ondisk cciss/c0d0 --fstype ext3 --grow This works well and will successfully create the following partition table: Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 73.3 GB, 73372631040 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8920 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 14 927 7341705 83 Linux /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 928 1188 2096482+ 82 Linux swap /dev/cciss/c0d0p4 1189 8920 62107290 5 Extended /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 1189 8920 62107258+ 8e Linux LVM So far so good. But then there is no physical volume created. The output of 'pvs' and 'lvmdiskscan' shows me nothing about my lv. Therefore it is necessary to know when anaconda creates the physical volume (pv), like I can do with 'pvcreate'. Will it be created with the above shown line in the kickstart file and something else is wrong or does the pv will not created until I issue something like that: volgroup VolGroup00 pv.00 Thank you for your help. Cheers, Jan
