RE: Use entire disk as PV.

> > > 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?
> 

> I would've thought volgroup would be the way to go but reading the docs it
> seems like you have to create a partition:
> 
> Volgroup:
> Create the partition first, create the logical volume group, and then
> create the logical volume. For example:
> part pv.01 --size 3000
> volgroup myvg pv.01
> logvol / --vgname=myvg --size=2000 --name=rootvol

Aye... precisely the issue.  There's no way to get around the partition is would seem.  Is there perhaps another way to get this configure using a %pre script?  Or do I need to start looking at adding functionality to anaconda?