Kickstart - Partitioning....possible to use whole disk for LVM without creating a LVM partition

2015-03-09 Thread Jerry Billing
Hi For virtual servers it is nice to use the whole disk for LVM instead of creating a LVM partition on the disk. Then you can just increase the size of the disk in VMware and later extend the file system instead of having to add another disk and extend. Is it possible to use this setup in the

Re: Kickstart - Partitioning....possible to use whole disk for LVM without creating a LVM partition

2015-03-09 Thread James Harrison
Hi,From what I remember,it depends on the use of the disk. If its a boot disk, you have to have one DOS boot partition to start the system. However, if the disk is a second disk, then the whole disk can be folded into LVM. Thanks James On Monday, 9 March 2015, 14:18, Jerry Billing

Re: Kickstart - Partitioning....possible to use whole disk for LVM without creating a LVM partition

2015-03-09 Thread Andrew Simpson
I use kernel options that are set in the grub (i.e. isolinux/syslinux cfg files ) I pass in @vm on the append line, then in the kickstart, I parse /proc/cmdline for all the options. Following that, I check if [[ $opt_vm == 1 ]]; then. i then have each partition size set as a variable (

Re: Kickstart - Partitioning....possible to use whole disk for LVM without creating a LVM partition

2015-03-09 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 09:22:02PM +0100, Jerry Billing wrote: Hi My main question was if it is possible to use a whole disk using LVM without creating a seperate LVM partition in kickstart? If you create a partition on the disk you canĀ“t easily extend the disk by increasing the disk size