I should have asked for some more info while this was hot, but at the time the issues around alignment didn't matter to me. Fast forward to getting a netapp box and it becomes important.....

On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 05:25:43PM +0000, Paul wrote:

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Can anyone suggest how to ensure AutoYAST creates partitions that are aligned to 4K boundaries? As far as I can tell, AY doesn't allow for specifying start sectors -- only by size.

If anyone's interested, I discovered that it is possible to specify the size of a partition using sectors instead of the GB size. The properties partition_id and partition_type control such behaviour. To specify the size in sectors, the list resource region is used.

-Paul.

Anyone have some example xml on how to setup partitions to start/stop on specific sectors? I'm also curious about lvm pv's created by autoyast. The disks are getting a partition created on them as well, any chance of just using the whole disk? (like pvcreate /dev/sdd ) Thanks! --BigBeer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org