Keeping lvm-volumes over reinstallation

16 Feb 2005

      Hi

Is there a way to specify that existing LVM-volumes should not be
deleted with autoyast in sles9?

We have tried adding the volume to the autoyast-file with format=false,
but the data on the volume is still lost.

Our current partitioning-section looks like this:

    <partitioning config:type="list">
     <drive>
        <partitions config:type="list">
          <partition>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem>
            <partition_type>primary</partition_type>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <mount>/boot</mount>
            <size>100mb</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <lvm_group>vg0</lvm_group>
            <partition_type>primary</partition_type>
            <size>max</size>
          </partition>
        </partitions>
        <use>all</use>
      </drive>
      <drive>
        <device>/dev/vg0</device>
          <is_lvm_vg config:type="boolean">true</is_lvm_vg>
          <partitions config:type="list">
            <partition>
              <lvm_group>vg0</lvm_group>
              <lv_name>swap_lv</lv_name>
              <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
              <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
              <size>2000mb</size>
              <mount>swap</mount>
            </partition>
            <partition>
              <lvm_group>vg0</lvm_group>
              <lv_name>root_lv</lv_name>
              <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
              <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
              <mount>/</mount>
              <size>6000mb</size>
            </partition>
            <partition>
              <lvm_group>vg0</lvm_group>
              <lv_name>data</lv_name>
              <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
              <size>2000mb</size>
            </partition>
         </partitions>
         <pesize>4M</pesize>
         <use>all</use> 
      </drive>
    </partitioning>

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Ragnar Kjørstad
Software Engineer
Scali - http://www.scali.com
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