[Bioclusters] silly Kickstart/LVM syntax question (volgroup creation using 2 PVs ...)

[Robin, Robin]

Hmm..

It's just an idea. I did not try this myself. I think you may need a
separate line for this.

volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.4
volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.5 --useexisting
OR
volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.5 --noformat


Robin




On 7/31/08 9:29 AM, "Chris Dagdigian" <dag at sonsorol.org> wrote:

>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm reverse-engineering an anaconda-ks.cfg file to add a 2nd 500Gb
> disk into the standard CentOS 5 VolGroup00 LVM volume that holds the
> root "/" filesystem and I can't seem to find explicit documentation
> for the "volgroup" command in RHEL Kickstart. The online kickstart
> documentation does not fully document the usage syntax for the
> volgroup command ...
>
> This is the partition scheme from the kickstart file:
>
>> clearpart --all --drives=sda,sdb
>> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=sda
>> part swap --size=4096 --ondisk=sda
>> part swap --size=4096 --ondisk=sdb
>> part pv.4 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sda
>> part pv.5 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sdb
>> volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.4 pv.5
>> logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --
>> size=1024 --grow
>
>
> The only thing I've added to the kickstart file is:
>
>> part pv.5 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sdb
>
>
> ... and changing the volgroup command so that the new "pv.5" physical
> volume is added into the VolGroup00 volume group.
>
> I'm writing this email because the trial-and-error process for
> Kickstart in this particular environment is very time-consuming. If I
> can get the syntax correct the first time it will save lots and lots
> of time.
>
> My question comes down to this:
>
> "How to pass two pv devices to the volgroup command"
>
> My guess is that this is probably correct:
>
>> volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.4 pv.5
>
> ... but I'm also thinking that perhaps multiple PVs need to be comma-
> separated:
>
>> volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.4,pv.5
>
>
> Anyone have an answer or a link to better Kickstart docs?
>
>
> -Chris
>
>
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