Jeff Hefner writes:
hopefully this helps I have quite a few systems in the same boat. really large volume formated as xfs for storing backup data. Here is a simplified snippet from my kickstart files.
part pv.2 --noformat --ondisk=sdb --size=1 --grow volgroup lg_largevol --pesize=32768 pv.2
Jeff, this did not work for me. This is the resulting anaconda kickstart config as saved during installation:
#part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=102 #part / --fstype ext3 --size=20480 #part swap --size=10240 #part pv.100000 --noformat --size=1 --grow --ondisk=sdb #volgroup vol0 --pesize=32768 pv.100000
I'm also using lvcreate -l 100%FREE in %post, but the result is still 8TB only ("Total free space is ... 1.1TiB").
# gdisk -l /dev/sdb GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.6.6
Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. Disk /dev/sdb: 19528908800 sectors, 9.1 TiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): E04DF17F-35AC-42E9-B02B-3513C4EB5772 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 19528908766 Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries Total free space is 2286131368 sectors (1.1 TiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 34 41943073 20.0 GiB 0700 2 41943074 62914593 10.0 GiB 8200 3 62914594 17242777398 8.0 TiB 8E00
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