Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (59 mails)

[Mike Marion <mmarion@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:31:18PM -0500, Wayman Smith wrote:

> I have modified my autoyast to a simpler partitioning scheme. This seems
> to work. However, eventually I will need to add support for a more
> advanced partitioning scheme with multiple drives. Do you suggest using
> the Autoinstallation tool, or editing the bare xml file? I have attached
> the modified autoinst.xml file. Below is the partitioning scheme I would
> like to implement.

You can already do more advanced partitioning for multiple drives (and
differing numbers/types of drives) by creating the partitioning info in 
separate files and using the existing rules framework to read in the 
matching situation automatically.

> sda1
> - /boot 100M
> - /swap 2GB
> - /     30GB
> - LVM   max
> sda2
> - LVM   max
> volgrp1
> - logical volume 1 max

I'm doing some LVM stuff (on one disk) already.  I'm using only some of
the disk for the OS and leaving the rest available for xen instances.

I attached the file for doing this if you're curious about how to get
LVM going in autoyast.

If you have a situation with sda and sdb ( assume you actually meant
that above vs sda1 and sda2) you could use something based on my
attached file with 2 sections that create the initial LVM devices, one
with:
<device>/dev/sda</device>
and named something like:
<lvm_group>diskone</lvm_group>
and then second section exactly the same except for the /boot partition 
and the following differences:
<device>/dev/sdb</device>
and named something like:
<lvm_group>disktwo</lvm_group>

Then you can make your partitions on:
<device>/dev/diskone</device>
and
<device>/dev/disktwo</device>

You'll note from my example too, that you don't need to keep the OS
partitions outside of the LVM group.. only /boot needs to be outside it
so that grub (or lilo or any bootloader you like) can read the kernel
and initrd.  Even swap works find inside lvm.

-- 
Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff IT Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE profile SYSTEM "/usr/share/autoinstall/dtd/profile.dtd">
<profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns"; 
xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns";>
  <partitioning config:type="list">
    <drive>
      <device></device>
      <partitions config:type="list">
        <partition>
          <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
          <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
          <mount>/boot</mount>
          <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
          <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr>
          <partition_type>primary</partition_type>
          <size>500mb</size>
        </partition>
        <partition>
          <lvm_group>system</lvm_group>
          <partition_id config:type="integer">142</partition_id>
          <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr>
          <partition_type>primary</partition_type>
          <size>max</size>
        </partition>
      </partitions>
      <use>all</use>
    </drive>
    <drive>
      <device>/dev/system</device>
      <is_lvm_vg config:type="boolean">true</is_lvm_vg>
      <lvm2 config:type="boolean">true</lvm2>
      <partitions config:type="list">
        <partition>
          <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem>
          <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
          <lv_name>lv_afscache</lv_name>
          <mount>/usr/vice/cache</mount>
          <size>4gb</size>
        </partition>
        <partition>
          <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
          <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
          <lv_name>lv_root</lv_name>
          <mount>/</mount>
          <size>8gb</size>
        </partition>
        <partition>
          <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
          <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
          <lv_name>lv_swap</lv_name>
          <mount>swap</mount>
          <size>4gb</size>
        </partition>
        <partition>
          <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
          <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
          <lv_name>lv_var</lv_name>
          <mount>/var</mount>
          <size>2gb</size>
        </partition>
      </partitions>
      <pesize>4M</pesize>
      <use>all</use>
    </drive>
  </partitioning>
</profile>