Creating an unformatted, unmounted LVM LV in kickstart

[John Miles]

Interesting question - the kickstart docs say:
"--noformat — Use an existing logical volume and do not format it. "
but - you wouldn't have an "existing" lv to use.
Maybe a post-install task?

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>  I am setting up a kickstart file for a CentOS 5.3/Xen install and want to
> have it create a logical volume on a VG, but not format or mount it. The
> reason is, I will give the partition to a specific virtual machine, so would
> just has to unmount it and remove it's entry from fstab, which kind of
> defeats having it pre-built with the OS install as I can just as easy create
> it after the fact.
>
>  I've got:
>
> ### LVM setup.
> raid pv.20 --fstype "physical volume (LVM)" --level=RAID1 --device=md2
> raid.11 raid.21
> volgroup        vg0     --pesize=32768 pv.20
> logvol          /       --fstype ext3   --name=lv0 --vgname=vg0
> --size=20000
> logvol          /vm     --fstype ext3   --name=lv1 --vgname=vg0
> --size=250000
>
>  Could I simply add:
>
> logvol --name=lv2 --vgname=vg0 --size=1 --grow
>
>  Without the mount point or fstype being specified?
>
>  Thanks for any help! Google is failing me...
>
> Madi
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