RE: Use entire disk as PV.

"Speagle, Andy" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.kickstart.general
Message-ID <C4C88D9827A5C2439B06CE643909E67F1A0E513B48@exchange-01.ad.wichita.edu>
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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?

> Have you tried something like:
> 
> part pv.01 --size=1 --grow --ondisk=sdb

Aye... I think the problem with it is the entire "part" command... it's creating a partition.  There just doesn't seem to be a way to use a disk without partitioning it first.

Thoughts?
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