RE: Use entire disk as PV.

"Speagle, Andy" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.kickstart.general
Message-ID <C4C88D9827A5C2439B06CE643909E67F1A0E513D5E@exchange-01.ad.wichita.edu>
> Did you use a double dash for “--preexisting”?  I didn’t notice as I was typing it that Outlook had 
> “helpfully” changed the two dashes to a single emdash.  Did the pvcreate command actually work: does that 
> disk now have a full-disk PV on it?  In the pvcreate documentation, I just came across

Aye, I had used the --useexisting option with the double-hyphen.

> Here’s something else to try:
>
> echo "part pv.01 --onpart sdb --grow" >> /tmp/custom-part
> echo "volgroup rootvg /dev/sdb pv.01" >> /tmp/custom-part
>
> If kickstart refuses to create a partition on sdb, you will have to do something like
>
> lvm pvcreate /dev/sdb
> lvm vgcreate rootvg /dev/sdb
> echo "logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=root --vgname=rootvg --size=4096 --useexisting" >> /tmp/custom-part

This seems to have worked for the RHEL 6 installer.  RHEL 5.5 still barfs on this saying that no VG exists with the name "rootvg" ... 

I have filed a BZ with this as a feature request.  I hope this gets added at some point.  It should be fairly trivial to do.

Thanks for the info.

-Andy

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