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 [Lisa and Bart used Gandpa's name on a cartoon script they wrote] Bart - "Didn't you wonder why you were getting checks for doing absolutely nothing?" Grandpa - "I figured 'cause the Democrats are in power again."