Re: Use entire disk as PV.

Hi Andy,

Have you tried something like:

part pv.01 --size=1 --grow --ondisk=sdb

Thanks,

~ Josh Snyder
UNIX Admin & Caché DBA
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Speagle, Andy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Team,
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> I’m trying to setup the partitioning section of my kickstarts in such a way
> that rather than partitioning a disk and using /dev/sdX1 as the PV for my
> root VG, that I can instead use the entire disk.
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> The reason for doing this would be to make PV resizing a bit easier for
> virtual machines.  Otherwise, I must muck around with the partition table
> and blah blah … not a show-stopper, but potentially dangerous for junior
> admins.
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> I suspect that the functionality just isn’t there… but does anyone know the
> magic syntax to get it to use the entire drive (aka. /dev/sdb) as a PV
> during kickstart?
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> Thanks,
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> Andy Speagle
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> System & Storage Administrator
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