[CentOS] kickstart - dont wipe data

[Maxim Shpakov]

Hi!

I think that your problem is here

volgroup v pv.00 --noformat

2014-08-07 13:06 GMT+03:00 Markus Falb <markus.falb at fasel.at>:
> Hi,
> I am struggling with kickstart.
> What I want to achieve is a reinstall, but some data partitions should
> survive the install, i.e. they should not be formatted.
> With a single disk this works, here is the relevant part from the
> kickstart file (I shortened the name of the volume group)
>
> ...
> zerombr
> clearpart --none --initlabel
> part /boot --fstype="xfs"   --label=boot --onpart=vda1
> part pv.00 --fstype="lvmpv"              --onpart=vda2 --noformat
> volgroup v --noformat
> logvol /     --fstype=xfs  --name=wurzel --vgname=v --useexisting
> logvol /home --fstype=ext4 --name=home   --vgname=v --noformat
> ...
>
> you see, / will be reformatted, /boot will be reformatted, but /home
> will not.
>
> Now a machine with md raid 1. I tried the following.
>
> ...
> #zerombr
> #clearpart --none --initlabel
>
> part raid.01 --onpart vda1 --noformat
> part raid.02 --onpart vdb1 --noformat
> raid /boot --fstype xfs --label boot --level 1 --device md0 --noformat
>
> part raid.11 --onpart vda2 --noformat
> part raid.12 --onpart vdb2 --noformat
> raid pv.00 --level 1 --device md1 --noformat
>
> volgroup v --noformat
> logvol /     --fstype=xfs --name=wurzel --vgname=v --useexisting
> logvol /home --fstype=ext4 --name=home  --vgname=v --noformat
> ...
>
> But I get
>
> ...
> 02:54:21,069 ERR anaconda: storage configuration failed: The following
> problem occurred on line 6 of the kickstart file:
>
> No preexisting RAID device with the name "0" was found.
> ...
>
> What is wrong? I really want preserve data and only wipe system.
>
> --
> Kind Regards, Markus Falb
>
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