Hi Greg, hi Steve, hi list, I'm sorry. It seems to be that I put concern in wrong words.I don't want anaconda/kickstart to set up the whole lvm environment for the system. Anaconda should simply create the partition and initialize this partition to make it ready for lvm usage.
The reason why it is not necessary to create a volume group is, that this will be done by another component later in the installation process.
I would like to know, if the part command takes care of the creation of the partition and its initialization (i.e. with pvcreate) or if it is not possible to seperate this step from the volume group creation.
31 part pv.00 --size 1024 -- ondisk cciss/c0d0 --fstype ext3
Cheers, Jan On 13.06.2007, at 18:11, Steve Robson wrote:
-----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 2728 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 --growThis works well and will successfully create the following partition table: Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 73.3 GB, 73372631040 bytes255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8920 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 *512 = 8225280 bytesDevice 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 outputof 'pvs' and 'lvmdiskscan' shows me nothing about my lv.Hi Jan,As Greg Caetano showed, you need to define at least one logical volume. Here's an excerpt from my ks.cfg file, which successfully sets up LVM using three physical HDDs. You'll get the picture:zerombr yes clearpart --all ## Note: 255GB FS size limit in LVM part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100 --asprimary --ondisk=sda part pv.00 --size 1 --grow --ondisk=sda part pv.01 --size 1 --grow --ondisk=sdb part pv.02 --size 1 --grow --ondisk=sdc volgroup vg00 pv.00 pv.01 pv.02 logvol / --fstype ext3 --vgname=vg00 --size=9000 --name=lroot logvol /tmp --fstype ext3 --vgname=vg00 --size=50000 --name=ltmp logvol /vol0 --fstype ext3 --vgname=vg00 --size=100000 --name=lvol0 logvol /vol1 --fstype ext3 --vgname=vg00 --size=100000 --name=lvol1 logvol swap --vgname=vg00 --size=32768 --name=lswap -- Regards, Steve IT Support - UNIX/Linux Cadence Design Systems Bagshot Road Bracknell BERKSHIRE RG12 0PH UK _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
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