On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:54 AM, James Laska <jlaska@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 It makes sense. I went to the link and read the doc and saw that the same syntax is used to setup raids. I had seen the doc, but didn't occur to me to use "pv.11 pv.12 pv.13". Thank you very much for the tips. ~af _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
