<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div>Hi,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425912394205_12411" dir="ltr">From what I remember,it depends on the use of the disk. If its a boot disk, you have to have one DOS boot partition to start the system. However, if the disk is a second disk, then the whole disk can be folded into LVM.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425912394205_13231" dir="ltr"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425912394205_13232" dir="ltr">Thanks </div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425912394205_12410">James</div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"> </div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> On Monday, 9 March 2015, 14:18, Jerry Billing <jebi01@handelsbanken.se> wrote: </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv1512073059">Hi For virtual servers it is nice to use the whole disk for LVM instead of creating a LVM partition on the disk. Then you can just increase the size of the disk in VMware and later extend the file system instead of having to add another disk and extend. Is it possible to use this setup in the kickstart? What syntax do one use if it is possible? If I have done it manually it whould have been like this: pvcreate /dev/sdb (instead of using a LVM partition called /dev/sdb1) vgcreate DataVG /dev/sdb lvcreate -n DataLV -l 100%FREE DataVG DataLV At the moment I have the following partitioning script in my kickstart file for RHEL6/7 as a pre script: DISK_TYPE=$(parted -s /dev/sda print |grep Model | awk '{print $2}') echo "Disk type = $DISK_TYPE" if [ "$DISK_TYPE" = "VMware" ] then echo "This is a VMware server, disk type=$DISK_TYPE" cat > /tmp/partitioning.cfg <<EOF part /boot --fstype="xfs" --size=1024 --ondisk=sda part pv.01 --size=10240 --grow --ondisk=sda volgroup VGos pv.01 logvol / --vgname=VGos --name=LVroot --size=10240 --grow logvol swap --vgname=VGos --name=LVswap --recommended part pv.02 --size=1000 --grow --ondisk=sdb volgroup VGdata pv.02 logvol /usr/users --vgname=VGdata --name=LVhome --size=20480 logvol /app --vgname=VGdata --name=LVapp --size=1000 --grow EOF else echo "This is a Physical server, disk type=$DISK_TYPE" cat > /tmp/partitioning.cfg <<EOF part /boot --fstype="xfs" --size=1024 --ondisk=sda part pv.01 --size=10240 --grow --ondisk=sda volgroup VGos pv.01 logvol / --vgname=VGos --name=LVroot --size=10240 --grow logvol swap --vgname=VGos --name=LVswap --recommended logvol /var --vgname=VGos --name=LVvar --size=20480 EOF fi Regards Jerry</div> _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:Kickstart-list@redhat.com" href="mailto:Kickstart-list@redhat.com">Kickstart-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>