Hi Uwe,

the problem here is that I need something like a filter since we have about 63x4 multipath devices at the moment and I was told that we can reach about 1000 devices in productive environments :-).

And we want to install the os on /dev/cciss/c0d0 or /dev/xvda, ...

So I would really need a filter <skip_value>sd*</skip_value> here

Thanks, Jochen

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Uwe Gansert ug@suse.de 03.07.12 16.57 Uhr >>>

On 03.07.2012 15:22, Jochen Schaefer wrote:

I want to prevent the partitioning of all /dev/sdxxx devices by autoyast. How to achieve that? Regarding to Uwe's blog I can use the skip_list feature. But I'm uncertain about which skip_key and skip_value to use?

<listentry> <skip_key>name</skip_key> <skip_value>sda</skip_value> </listentry> <listentry> <skip_key>name</skip_key> <skip_value>sdb</skip_value> </listentry> <listentry> <skip_key>name</skip_key> <skip_value>sdc</skip_value> </listentry> ....

should work of course but maybe there is something all sdX devices have in common? Have you tried yast2 ayast_probe and compared the drives? Like I describe here? http://suse.gansert.net/?p=499

Thanks Uwe,

I will try the ayast_probe.

Best Regards

Jochen

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Uwe Gansert ug@suse.de 03.07.12 17.15 Uhr >>>

On 03.07.2012 17:10, Jochen Schaefer wrote:

the problem here is that I need something like a filter since we have about 63x4 multipath devices at the moment and I was told that we can reach about 1000 devices in productive environments :-).

And we want to install the os on /dev/cciss/c0d0 or /dev/xvda, ...

what about? <skip_key>type</skip_key> <skip_value>CT_DISK</skip_value>

or <skip_key>driver</skip_key> or <skip_key>bus</skip_key>

I'm sure there is something common between the sdX devices. Look at the ayast_probe