From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petro Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Automatically GROW an LV to max size Message-Id: <20020124022536.GE13465@auctionwatch.com> References: <20020123172346.L8275@ultraviolet.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020123172346.L8275@ultraviolet.org> Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Wed Jan 23 20:26:01 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 05:23:46PM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote: > I'm the system administrator for MP3.com. I talked to some Sistina > developers who visited the office a year or so ago but don't recall > their > names now, sorry. One if the things I asked for in LVM (and would still > like to see) is a switch to create an LV that is as big as the remaining > disk space available. > We have a redhat based kickstart install that sets up a basic / and then > creates an LV out of the rest of the disk. Currently we have hard coded > the size of the remaining disk but it would be really slick if we could > just pass an option to lvcreate which would just create an lv with the > most space possible. > Right now if we ever install on anything other than one of our standard > 36G disks we have to delete the lv that was made and resize it or if the > disk is smaller than 36G the hard coded lvcreate size will fail due to > lack of space. > There's got to be a cleaner way to do it. It's been almost a year since I was inside kickstart, but you should be able to customize the script to read the remaining disk space, then call lvcreate with a variable. -- Share and Enjoy.