lvm, creation of physical volumes

[Caetano, Greg]

Here is an example of anaconda creating the LV as reported in
anaconda-ks.cfg after an interactive installation:

# The following is the partition information you requested
# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
# not guaranteed to work
#clearpart --all --drives=cciss/c0d0,cciss/c0d1
#part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=cciss/c0d0
#part pv.4 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=cciss/c0d1
#part pv.3 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=cciss/c0d0
#volgroup VolGroup01 --pesize=32768 pv.4 pv.3
#logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup01
--size=1000 --grow --maxsize=1984
#logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup01 --size=1024
--grow 


Greg Caetano
HP TSG Linux Solutions Alliances Engineering
Chicago, IL
greg.caetano at hp.com
Red Hat Certified Engineer
RHCE#803004972711193
-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jan Michael
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:15 AM
To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
Subject: lvm, creation of physical volumes

Hello kickstart mailing list,

my questions regards the creation of physical volumes via lvm.
I specified the following disk layout in my kickstart file:

      26 clearpart --all --drives cciss/c0d0 --initlabel
      27
      28 part /boot                          --size 100      --ondisk  
cciss/c0d0 --fstype ext3
      29 part /                              --size 7168     --ondisk  
cciss/c0d0 --fstype ext3
      30 part swap                           --size 2048     --ondisk  
cciss/c0d0 --fstype swap
      31 part pv.00                          --size 1024     --ondisk  
cciss/c0d0 --fstype ext3   --grow

This works well and will successfully create the following partition
table:

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 73.3 GB, 73372631040 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8920 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 *
512 = 8225280 bytes

            Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2              14         927     7341705   83  Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3             928        1188     2096482+  82  Linux  
swap
/dev/cciss/c0d0p4            1189        8920    62107290    5  Extended
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5            1189        8920    62107258+  8e  Linux  
LVM

So far so good. But then there is no physical volume created. The output
of 'pvs' and 'lvmdiskscan' shows me nothing about my lv.

Therefore it is necessary to know when anaconda creates the physical
volume (pv), like I can do with 'pvcreate'. Will it be created with the
above shown line in the kickstart file and something else is wrong or
does the pv will not created until I issue something like that:

	volgroup VolGroup00 pv.00

Thank you for your help. Cheers,

	Jan