On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 14:44 -0700, Aldo Foot wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 12 2009, Aldo Foot said: > >> Looking at this article: http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-5511 > >> > >> What is the meaning or purpose of the "01" in the lines > >> part pv.01 --size=1 --grow > >> volgroup vg_root pv.01 > >> Is it an arbitrary number to give an id to the VG? > > > > Yes, it's purely an id for mapping the VG to a specific PV. Which > > becomes needed as you have multiple volume groups > > Thanks for replying. > > This small detail is not documented anywhere I look. There is no > reference to it by the output of the LVM commands either. So, is this > something used only during the time kickstart is running? > > All LMV examples on kickstart that I've seen involved only one physical > disk. > Now, say that I have three HDDs and I have this in the ks.cfg: > part pv.11 - -size=100 - -ondisk=hda > part pv.12 - -size=200 - -ondisk=hdb > part pv.13 - -size=300 - -ondisk=hdc > What would be the correct syntax to create the Volume Group? > I'm thinking maybe > volgroup bigVG - -pesize=789 pv.1113 > with the "pv.1113" pointing to what's specified in the previous part commands > showing the range 11 through 13. Is this accurate? In the example you note, to create a volume group of the 3 partitions you would do: volgroup bigVG --pesize=789 pv.11 pv.12 pv.13 For additional information on the volgroup kickstart command, refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart. Thanks, James -- ========================================== James Laska -- jlaska@xxxxxxxxxx Quality Engineering -- Red Hat, Inc. ==========================================
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