On 4/6/07, Janne Blomqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I stumbled upon an issue with the kickstart partitioning when trying
to port our kickstart files from rhel4 to rhel5. For rhel4, the
partitioning part of kickstart looked like
clearpart --all --initlabel
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --asprimary
part pv.01 --size 1 --grow --fstype "physical volume (LVM)"
volgroup vg01 pv.01
logvol / --vgname=vg01 --fstype ext3 --size=15000 --name=rootLV
logvol swap --vgname=vg01 --fstype swap --size=2560 --name=swapLV
logvol /tmp --vgname=vg01 --fstype ext3 --size=5000 --name=tmpLV
logvol /scratch --vgname=vg01 --fstype ext3 --size=1 --grow --name=scratchLV
However, when trying to use this for kickstarting rhel5, it doesn't
work. During the partitioning stage anaconda throws an exception
"lvcreate failed for swapLV", and the installation is
aborted. Swithing to another VT and looking at the LV:s that anaconda
has created, it seems that the problem is that the scratchLV has been
created before swapLV, and due to the --grow option it grows to fill
all the space, without leaving enough space left for swapLV. Changing
the kickstart file by setting a fixed size for scratchLV and removing
--grow makes the the kickstart succeed, but having --grow work would
be really convenient for our somewhat heterogeneous machines.
OTOH, resizing /scratch online after the installation makes for a
really cool demo of system-config-lvm. :)
Am I missing something really obvious or is it time to enter an issue
into bugzilla? Have other people seen something like this, at least on
bugzilla I didn't find anything that looked relevant?
I would check the release notes and notes for anaconda.. but I think
this is a known change for LVM creation in anaconda. I think it was
easier to 'resize' LVM partitions after the fact that deal with stuff
in a limited memory area such as anaconda.
--
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
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