kickstart AS3 and LVM

[Robert Wehner]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:19:00 -0700, Robinson, Andrew W.
<Andrew.W.Robinson at mms.gov> wrote:
> > From: Kreig DuBose [mailto:kdubose at mystrotv.com]
> >
> > Hi-
> > I'm trying to get kickstart to configure my LVM partitions.  Use of the
> > syntax generated from the anaconda install log does not seem to work.
> >
> > clearpart --all
> > part /boot --fstype "ext3" --onpart sda1
> > part swap --onpart sda2
> > part pv.3 --onpart sda3

I believe that these three "part" commands require a
"--size=<some_snumber>" flag.
My working LVM config looks very similar, but includes the size.
Hope that helps.

> > volgroup SYS_VG pv.3
> > logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=lv_root --vgname=SYS_VG --size=4096
> > logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=lv_var --vgname=SYS_VG --size=4096
> > logvol /home --fstype ext3 --name=lv_home --vgname=SYS_VG --size=3836
> > logvol /usr/local --fstype ext3 --name=lv_usrlocal --vgname=SYS_VG
> > --size=16384
> > logvol /usr --fstype ext3 --name=lv_usr --vgname=SYS_VG --size=4096
> 
> This is not a reply with a solution and I apologize for that. I recently ran
> into a similar problem and never got it solved. To use LVM, I had to wipe my
> disk clean and start from scratch. When I posted my problem, Chris Rouch
> suggested the "--use-existing" option on the logvol lines. That still did
> not work for me.
> 
> Sorry not to be helpful,
> 
> Andrew Robinson
> 
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