LVM and kickstarts ?

Michael Gale michael.gale at pason.com
Wed Mar 5 15:02:45 UTC 2008


Hey,

	I am currently using Centos5, the method you provided has the swap part 
of the LVM. This works with out an issue, the problem I am having is 
with the setup I show under option2.

If the swap is not part of the LVM, it fails.

Michael



Gary Thomas wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> Michael Gale wrote:
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>>     Can anyone tell me why option 1 works and option 2 fails ?
>>
>> What are you installing?
>>>
>>> It fails on trying to format my logical volume, because the mount point
>>> does not exist (/dev/volgroup/logvol)
>>>
>>> It seems that with option 2, the partitions are created and LVM is setup
>>> correctly. However the volgroup / logvolume was not made active, so my
>>> /dev/volgroup/logvol did not exist.
>>>
>>> Running `lvm lvchange -a -y pathname` from with in the shell after
>>> anaconda failed made the volgroup / logvol active. Which would allow the
>>> format command to complete.
>>>
>>> Option 1:
>>> zerombr yes
>> In CentOS5, Anaconda complains (but continues) with that, and so my 
>> question.
>>
>>> clearpart --all --initlabel
>>> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100
>>> part pv.os --size=10000 --grow --maxsize=10000 --asprimary
>>> volgroup os_volgroup01 pv.os
>>> logvol swap --fstype swap --name=os_swap_logvol --vgname=os_volgroup01
>>> --recommended
>>> logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=os_root --vgname=os_volgroup01 --size=1024
>>> --grow
>>>
>>> Option 2:
>>> zerombr yes
>>> clearpart --all --initlabel
>>> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100
>>> part swap --size=1000
>>> part pv.os --size=10000 --grow --maxsize=10000 --asprimary
>>> volgroup os_volgroup01 pv.os
>>> logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=os_root --vgname=os_volgroup01 --size=1024
>>> --grow
>>
>> I'll let you compare, this works with CentOS5:
>> zerombr
>> part /boot --fstype "ext3" --size=100 --ondisk=hda
>> part pv.6 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=hda
>> volgroup VolGroup00 pv.6
>> logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 
>> --grow
>> logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=512
> 
> This setup works on Fedor9 (alpha)
> 
> # 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 --linux --drives=sda
> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=200 --ondisk=sda
> part pv.3 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sda
> volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.3
> logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 
> --grow
> logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=256 
> --grow --maxsize=512
> 
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Michael Gale

Red Hat Certified Engineer
Network Administrator
Pason Systems Corp.

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