Re: What will happen with spares in this scenario?

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

John McNulty <johnmcn1@googlemail.com> writes:

> On 29 Jun 2009, at 17:08, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
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>           So drop md1, make c0d0p1 as big as the others and then
>      partition
>      md0 eigther directly or via lvm.
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> You wouldn't happen to know if it's possible to create a partitionable array
> like this in Kickstart would you?   I've had a sniff around Redhat's docs and
> a documented way of doing this isn't jumping out at me.    If I had to guess
> then it might look something like this?

Totally Debian here.

> part  pv.1  --size 1 --ondisk cciss/c0d0 --grow --asprimary
>
> part  pv.2  --size 1 --ondisk cciss/c1d0 --grow --asprimary
>
> raid  pv.3  --level=RAID1 --device=md_d0 pv.1 pv.2
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> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 300 --ondisk md_d0
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> part pv.4 --fstype "physical volume (LVM) --size 1 --ondisk md_d0 --grow
>
> volgroup system --pesize=32768 pv.4
> logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=root --vgname=system --size=51200
> logvol swap --fstype swap --name=swap --vgname=system --size=8192

Hmm, do I understand this right that you want 2 partitions. One for
/boot and one for everything else on lvm?

Just a crazy idea. But why not put /boot on lvm too and use grub2 or
lilo as bootloader? Or does Kickstart not allow that?

> This might be a bit ambitious, and I can't see an option to "raid" that would
> tell it to create a partitionable raid device, i.e. run --auto=mdp behind the
> scenes.   Unless it takes a hint from the device name and does that without
> asking?
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> The systems I'm working on are to be kickstarted from a Spacewalk server.
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> Rgds,
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> John

MfG
        Goswin
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