RE: [suse-autoinstall] autoyast2 and LVM creation

3 Mar 2005

      And now I'll answer my own question, because I figured it out about 10
seconds after sending this e-mail.

The problem was this parameter:
<size>max</size>
Which I used when defining the size of the Logical Volume.  

Unfortunately, this isn't a supported behavior.  You have to specify a
size in the standard <size>XXXgb</size> format.

Which makes sense, but it would be nice to be able to do a
<size>max</size> (if anyone out there who's reading this happens to feel
like making that happen :-)

- Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: Marlier, Ian [mailto:ian.marlier@studentuniverse.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:37 PM
To: suse-autoinstall@suse.com
Subject: [suse-autoinstall] autoyast2 and LVM creation

I found a message about this exact problem from way back (7 April 2004
-- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-autoinstall/2004-Apr/0026.html),
but there wasn't an answer to it.  I'm hoping that there might be one
now...

When running an autoinstall using a control file that has an LVM group
configured in it, I consistently get an error that the Logical Volume
needs more space during the software selection configuration section.
=20

After that message times out, the setup process continues, then halts
with an error when it tries to create the Logical Volume.  The error in
that case is "lvm create_lv invalid parameter".

Once the second error comes up, I can manually create the Logical Volume
with the standard `lvcreate -n space vg_name` command.

I'm using autoyast2, and installing SuSE pro 9.2.

The relevant section of the configuration file is this:

     <drive>
        <device>/dev/sdc</device>
        <partitions config:type=3D"list">
          <partition>
            <lvm_group>suvg</lvm_group>
            <partition_type>primary</partition_type>
            <size>max</size>
          </partition>
        </partitions>
        <use>all</use>
      </drive>
        <drive>
                <device>/dev/suvg</device>
                <is_lvm_vg config:type=3D"boolean">true</is_lvm_vg>
                <partitions config:type=3D"list">
                 <partition>
                        <filesystem
config:type=3D"symbol">jfs</filesystem>
                        <lv_name>space_lv</lv_name>
                        <mount>/space</mount>
                        <size>max</size>
                 </partition>
                </partitions>
                <use>all</use>
        </drive>

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