Hi Uwe,
Doing automated installation of server with / on ext3 on software RAID 1 mirror of /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2 and /home on xfs on software RAID 10 of /dev/sda3, /dev/sdb3, /dev/sdc3, /dev/sdd3.
I want to preserve /home when doing an automated reinstall of the machine. I can keep the existing partitions fine and they get assigned to MD devices correctly.
However whilst the partitions are being kept fine, I see the messages "deleting MD device" (or some such wording), followed by "creating MD device" (or similar wording) and indeed it then fails to mount /home as the xfs file system is not there any more. )-:
If I set <create config:type="boolean">false</create> for the partitions on the /dev/md device in the autoyast file then the md devices are still destroyed but then not created again so the install fails immediately as there is nowhere to install. )-:
Is this a bug or a feature?
Is there any way I can get autoyast to preserve the existing md devices?
If you want to see my autoyast partitioning section, this is it:
<partitioning config:type="list">
<drive>
<device>/dev/sda</device>
<initialize>false</initialize>
<disklabel>gpt</disklabel>
<partitions config:type="list">
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
1
<format config:type="boolean">false</format>
<resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
primary
</partition>
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
253
2
<format config:type="boolean">false</format>
<resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
primary
/dev/md0
raid1
</partition>
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
253
3
<format config:type="boolean">false</format>
<resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
primary
/dev/md2
raid10
</partition>
</partitions>
<use>1,2,3</use>
</drive>
<drive>
<device>/dev/sdb</device>
<initialize>false</initialize>
<disklabel>gpt</disklabel>
<partitions config:type="list">
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
1
<format config:type="boolean">false</format>
<resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
primary
</partition>
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
253
2
<format config:type="boolean">false</format>
<resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
primary
/dev/md0
raid1
</partition>
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
253
3
<format config:type="boolean">false</format>
<resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
primary
/dev/md2
raid10
</partition>
</partitions>
<use>1,2,3</use>
</drive>
<drive>
<device>/dev/sdc</device>
<initialize>false</initialize>
<disklabel>gpt</disklabel>
<partitions config:type="list">
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
1
<format config:type="boolean">false</format>
<resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
primary
</partition>
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
253
2
<format config:type="boolean">false</format>
<resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
primary
/dev/md1
raid1
</partition>
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
253
3
<format config:type="boolean">false</format>
<resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
primary
/dev/md2
raid10
</partition>
</partitions>
<use>1,2,3</use>
</drive>
<drive>
<device>/dev/sdd</device>
<initialize>false</initialize>
<disklabel>gpt</disklabel>
<partitions config:type="list">
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
1
<format config:type="boolean">false</format>
<resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
primary
</partition>
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
253
2
<format config:type="boolean">false</format>
<resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
primary
/dev/md1
raid1
</partition>
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
253
3
<format config:type="boolean">false</format>
<resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
primary
/dev/md2
raid10
</partition>
</partitions>
<use>1,2,3</use>
</drive>
<drive>
<device>/dev/md</device>
<initialize>false</initialize>
<partitions config:type="list">
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
<filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
<format config:type="boolean">true</format>
<resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
<mount>/</mount>
<mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby>
0
4
raid1
</partition>
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
<filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
<format config:type="boolean">true</format>
<resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
<mount>swap</mount>
<mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby>
1
4
raid1
</partition>
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
<filesystem config:type="symbol">xfs</filesystem>
<fstopt>relatime,barrier,largeio,logbufs=8,logbsize=256k,swalloc</fstopt>
<format config:type="boolean">false</format>
<resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
<mount>/home</mount>
<mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby>
2
64
raid10
</partition>
</partitions>
<use>all</use>
</drive>
</partitioning>
Btw. the disks are gpt as they are 3TiB disks...
PS. I am installing SLES 11 SP2 x86_64 if that matters.
Thanks a lot in advance!
Best regards,
Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
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