On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 09:22:02PM +0100, Jerry Billing wrote: > Hi > > My main question was if it is possible to use a whole disk using LVM without > creating a seperate LVM partition in kickstart? If you create a partition on > the disk you can´t easily extend the disk by increasing the disk size in > VMware. Then you have to add another disk and extend your volume group. > If you use the whole disk by initialize the disk using "pvcreate /dev/disk", it > can easily be resized. I am not an expert on LVM so please correct me if I am > wrong :) You should still be able to expand relatively easily: - Expand the disk as you normally would in VMware, then use parted to expand the LVM partition. - Add another virtual disk and introduce it as a new PV into your VG and expand that way. > Is it possible to use standard LVM commands in kickstart? As I understand you > can just use part and logvol? By reading the manuls for theese commands I > cannot find a solution for this. > > I use the following commands in my kickstart file, and the partitioning script > I presented in my first mail is included in the kickstart using the %include > statement below. > > zerombr > clearpart --all > bootloader --location=mbr --boot-drive=sda > %include /tmp/partitioning.cfg > > By the way we are running Satellite 5.7. > > Regards Jerry Ray _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
