Assigning machinename to volumegroup

[Landreth, Kevin]

I found good luck with using a dot (.) because it saves whitespace and is not used by device-mapper (LVM).

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Joel Andres Granados
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 4:45 AM
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Subject: Re: Assigning machinename to volumegroup

Gerrard Geldenhuis wrote:
> Brilliant, obvious when you think about it. ;-)
> 
> It looks like it does not like the "-" character...
> vg-hostname does not work but vgxx does work. I will test it a bit more on Monday...
> 
> Regards
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-
>> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Pablo Iranzo Gómez
>> Sent: 07 March 2008 15:11
>> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
>> Subject: RE: Assigning machinename to volumegroup
>>
>> 	You need to put it near the place where right now is the partition
>> section, just replace the whole for your %include, and after %packages,
>> create a %pre taking care of this.
>>
>> 	Regards
>> 	Pablo
>>
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I would really not recommend the use of "-" for lvm names.  LVM seems to use the "-" internally somehow and has to treat the names containing "-" in a special way.
 
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Joel Andres Granados
Red Hat / Brno, Czech Republic

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