RE: Kickstart - Partitioning....possible to use whole disk for LVM without creating a LVM partition

Jacob Evans <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Jan 2017 10:47:02 -0500 (EST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.kickstart.general
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Hey All, 
A while back someone was looking for a way to kickstart lvm volumes without partitions, here's how I accomplished it. 

# Expects 2 vm disks 
# Disk 1 = 1GB 
# Disk 2 = DATA (5GB or larger) 
# Disk Layout 
clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda 
part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1 --ondisk=sda 
part /boot --fstype=xfs --size=512 --grow --ondisk=sda 
logvol swap --fstype=swap --name=swap --vgname=vg01 --size=512 
logvol /tmp --fstype xfs --name=tmp --vgname=vg01 --size=1024 
logvol / --fstype xfs --name=lv01 --vgname=vg01 --size=2048 --grow 

%pre 
pvcreate /dev/sdb 
vgcreate vg01 /dev/sdb 
vgscan 
%end 


if there are any updates, I'll update this gist, https://gist.github.com/JakeDEvans/908d9a75aa5fc24c9eee24f4912af9aa 

Thanks, 
- Jake 


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 /boot --fstype=3Dxfs --size=3D512 --grow --ondisk=3Dsda</div><div>logvol s=
wap --fstype=3Dswap --name=3Dswap --vgname=3Dvg01 --size=3D512</div><div>lo=
gvol /tmp --fstype xfs --name=3Dtmp --vgname=3Dvg01 --size=3D1024</div><div=
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div><div><br></div><div>%pre</div><div>pvcreate /dev/sdb</div><div>vgcreate=
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