LOGVOL --grow Seems to Be Broken

[William J. Dennison]

Attempted and failed, the error is "lvcreate failed for lv_upload_data" 
REBOOT, this is the same error from prior attempts.

On Tuesday 04 November 2008 01:18:11 pm Tom Callahan wrote:
> Doing some quick googling of
>
> "logvol" AND "--grow"
>
> Gives me a couple examples where people are using just --grow on logvol
> definitions. Try making it the last argument in the definition string.
>
> logvol /opt/store/virtual_machines --vgname=vg_data
> --name=lv_virtual_machines --fstype=ext3 --size=1 --grow
>
> On 11/4/08 1:15 PM, "Thomas Callahan" <callahant at tessco.com> wrote:
> > It looks like --grow requires an attribute, documentation shows "--grow="
> >
> > Try --grow=max maybe? Or --grow=y
> >
> > I have not played with --grow on logvol yet.
> >
> > On 11/4/08 1:06 PM, "William J. Dennison" <william_dennison at sra.com> 
wrote:
> >> The Kickstart documentation located here
>
> (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_G
>ui>> d
>
> >> e-en-US/s1-kickstart2-options.html)
> >> specifically notes that you can use "--grow" with a "logvol" parameter.
> >> When I do this the RHEL5 installation blows up. Is this an issue with
> >> Cobbler, Kickstart, RHEL 5 limitations, etc.?
> >>
> >> Below is my partitioning area in my kickstart file.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-->> -
>
> >> --------------------------------------
> >> clearpart --all --initlabel
> >>
> >> partition /boot --size=1000 --ondisk=sda --asprimary --fstype=ext3
> >>
> >> partition pv.01 --size=22000 --ondisk=sda --asprimary
> >> partition pv.02 --size=1024 --grow --ondisk=sda --asprimary
> >>
> >> volgroup vg_system pv.01
> >> volgroup vg_data pv.02
> >>
> >> logvol / --vgname=vg_system --size=2000 --name=lv_root --fstype=ext3
> >> logvol /swap --vgname=vg_system --size=4000 --name=lv_swap --fstype=swap
> >> logvol /usr --vgname=vg_system --size=4000 --name=lv_usr --fstype=ext3
> >> logvol /var --vgname=vg_system --size=2000 --name=lv_var --fstype=ext3
> >> logvol /var_log --vgname=vg_system --size=2000 --name=lv_var_log
> >> --fstype=ext3
> >> logvol /var_log_audit --vgname=vg_system --size=2000
> >> --name=lv_var_log_audit --
> >> fstype=ext3
> >> logvol /var/tmp --vgname=vg_system --size=2000 --name=lv_var_tmp
> >> --fstype=ext3
> >> logvol /tmp --vgname=vg_system --size=2000 --name=lv_tmp --fstype=ext3
> >> logvol /opt --vgname=vg_system --size=1000 --name=lv_opt --fstype=ext3
> >>
> >> logvol /home --vgname=vg_data --size=10000 --name=lv_home --fstype=ext3
> >>
> >> logvol /opt/store/incomming_data --vgname=vg_data --size=1000
> >> --name=lv_incom ming_data --fstype=ext3
> >> logvol /opt/store/saved_data --vgname=vg_data --size=1000
> >> --name=lv_saved_data
> >> --fstype=ext3
> >> logvol /opt/store/upload_data --vgname=vg_data --size=1000
> >> --name=lv_upload_data --fstype=ext3
> >> logvol /opt/store/export_data --vgname=vg_data --size=1000
> >> --name=lv_export_data --fstype=ext3
> >> logvol /opt/store/webserver --vgname=vg_data --size=1000
> >> --name=lv_appserver --fstype=ext3
> >> logvol /opt/store/dbserver --vgname=vg_data --size=1000
> >> --name=lv_dbserver --fstype=ext3
> >> logvol /opt/store/virtual_machines --vgname=vg_data --size=1 --grow
> >> --name=lv_virtual_machines --fstype=ext3
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-->> -
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-->> -
>
> >> ----
> >>
> >> If I remove the --grow from "virtual_machines", all works fine, if I
> >> leave it in the Anaconda load blows up. When I run an interactive
> >> install, I notice that the --grow feature is not allowed on logvols.
> >>  Does the logvol RED HAT documentation have to be edited?
> >
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