Need advice about partitioning

[Robinson, Andrew W.]

I think I remember from my Red Hat System Administration class that
Kickstart cannot configure LVM. It would have to be done in the %pre
section. But that does give me food for thought. Thanks!

Andrew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Pianta [mailto:pantz at lqt.ca]
> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 10:39 AM
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Subject: Re: Need advice about partitioning
> 
> On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 08:33 -0700, Robinson, Andrew W. wrote:
> 
> >      1. Can I "guide" Kickstart to lay out the disk the way I want? Or
> >         would I need to run fdisk in the %pre section to gain that
> >         much control?
> 
> see below
> 
> >      1. Do I need this much control? Does it really matter how the
> >         partitions are laid out relative to each other if I expect to
> >         shift space between them later with parted?
> 
> see below
> 
> >      1. Am I fixated on the wrong idea? Is there another way to think
> >         about this disk layout altogether?
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> I would recommend you go with LVM for setting up your disks.
> 
> It has been around for long enough now, and been used in many production
> environments so I believe it has reached 'mature' status. It will give
> you the flexibility that you are looking for and you won't need to use
> parted later to mess around with growing/shrinking partitions. LVM
> allows you to add/remove/grow/shrink partitions very easily and safely.
> 
> The only restriction that I am aware of is that you shouldn't setup
> your /boot partition on LVM. But that is not really a problem - you
> setup a 'primary' partition for /boot and then you can setup the rest of
> the drive as a 'logical group' that would contain your 'logical volumes'
> such as /, /var, /opt, /extra, etc.
> 
> If you ever need more space in your /var logical volume, then with the
> LVM tools you can easily bump up the size if you remembered to leave
> yourself some free space in the logical group. (like you originally
> planned with the /extra partition)
> 
> Kickstarting LVM is probably easier done by using 'disk druid' during a
> regular gui install and then snipping the config out of the anaconda-
> ks.cfg file that is created in /root after the install is finished. Or
> maybe the system-config-kickstart tool can easily configure LVM
> partitions?
> 
> I hope that gives you some food for thought to munch on :)
> 
> pantz
> 
> 
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