[CentOS] LVM and kickstarts ?

Mon Mar 3 22:50:52 UTC 2008
Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at medallion.com>

Michael Gale wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> 
> 	If I take swap out of the LVM section and create a 
> regular partition 
> for swap it fails.

Maybe you have some bad white space in there. Accidentally quoted
some control character or such.

I'd wipe those lines out in vi and re-type them to be certain.

-Ross


> 
> Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> > Michael Gale wrote:
> >> Hey,
> >>
> >> 	Can anyone tell me why option 1 works and option 2 
> fails ? I know I 
> >> need swap and such, however in trouble shooting this issue 
> I trimmed 
> >> down my config.
> >>
> >> It fails on trying to format my logical volume, because 
> the mount point 
> >> does not exist (/dev/volgroup/logvol)
> >>
> >> It seems that with option 2, the partitions are created 
> and LVM is setup 
> >> correctly. However the volgroup / logvolume was not made 
> active, so my 
> >> /dev/volgroup/logvol did not exist.
> >>
> >> Running `lvm lvchange -a -y pathname` from with in the shell after 
> >> anaconda failed made the volgroup / logvol active. Which 
> would allow the 
> >> format command to complete.
> >>
> >> Option 1:
> >> zerombr yes
> >> clearpart --all --initlabel
> >> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100
> >> part pv.os --size=10000 --grow --maxsize=10000 --asprimary
> >> volgroup os_volgroup01 pv.os
> >> logvol swap --fstype swap --name=os_swap_logvol 
> --vgname=os_volgroup01 --recommended
> >> logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=os_root 
> --vgname=os_volgroup01 --size=1024 --grow
> >>
> >> Option 2:
> >> zerombr yes
> >> clearpart --all --initlabel
> >> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100
> >> part pv.os --size=10000 --grow --maxsize=10000 --asprimary
> >> volgroup os_volgroup01 pv.os
> >> logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=os_root 
> --vgname=os_volgroup01 --size=1024 --grow
> > 
> > I do this through kickstart and here's what I use:
> > 
> > bootloader --location=mbr
> > zerombr yes
> > clearpart --linux --initlabel --drives=sda
> > part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=128 --ondisk=sda --asprimary
> > part pv.0 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sda
> > volgroup CentOS --pesize=32768 pv.0
> > logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=root --vgname=CentOS 
> --size=4096 --grow --maxsize=16384
> > logvol swap --fstype swap --name=swap --vgname=CentOS 
> --size=1024 --grow --maxsize=2048
> > 
> > I haven't tried without swap and I think anaconda expects 
> there to be a swap definition
> > in kickstart, so that might be it, lv wasn't activated 
> because swap was missing.
> > 
> > Best I can think of.
> > 
> > -Ross
> > 
> > 
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