Using preseed to create two volume groups on same disk

Written by Claudio Kuenzler - 2 comments

Published on October 22nd 2014 - Listed in Linux

The following preseed partman recipe allows to create two volume groups on the same logical disk (/dev/sda):

d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
d-i partman-auto/method string lvm
d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select mypartitioning

d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \
      mypartitioning :: \
              512 512 512 ext2                                \
                      $primary{ }                             \
                      $bootable{ }                            \
                      method{ format } format{ }              \
                      use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext2 }    \
                      label{ boot }                           \
                      mountpoint{ /boot }                     \
              . \
              122880 122880 122880 ext4                       \
                      $primary{ }                             \
                      method{ lvm }                           \
                      device{ /dev/sda2 }                     \
                      vg_name{ vg1 }                          \
              . \
              122880 1000000000 1000000000 ext4               \
                      $primary{ }                             \
                      method{ lvm }                           \
                      device{ /dev/sda3 }                     \
                      vg_name{ vg2 }                          \
              . \
              8192 8192 8192 linux-swap                       \
                      $lvmok{ } in_vg{ vg1 }                  \
                      lv_name{ swap }                         \
                      method{ swap } format{ }                \
              . \
              10240 10240 10240 ext4                          \
                      $lvmok{ } in_vg{ vg1 }                  \
                      lv_name{ root }                         \
                      method{ format } format{ }              \
                      use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 }    \
                      label{ root }                           \
                      mountpoint{ / }                         \
              . \
              8192 8192 8192 ext4                             \
                      $lvmok{ } in_vg{ vg1 }                  \
                      lv_name{ var }                          \
                      method{ format } format{ }              \
                      use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 }    \
                      label{ var }                            \
                      mountpoint{ /var }                      \
              .

This will create:

• a primary partition with a size of ~500MB (the final OS defined it as 473MB) mounted on /boot
• Another primary partition with a size of ~122GB (final OS: 114GB) used as PV for the volume group vg1
• Another primary partition with a minimum size of ~122GB and max size of ... so big to use the whole disk .. for the volume group vg2
• Create a swap partition with a size of 8GB as LV "swap" in the volume group vg1
• Create a root (/) partition with a size of 10GB als LV "root" in the volume group vg1
• Create a /var partition with a size of 8GB as LV "var" in the volume group vg1

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ck from Switzerland wrote on Jan 25th, 2016:

Hi Kevin,

Did you try to NOT use new_vg_name at the begin of partman?
In my example I only defined the vg's within the recipe.

I had to do several try&err until I got it right, too. Unfortunately these kickstart/preseed scripts are not very well documented.

Let me know if it works this way.

cheers,
Claudio

kevin from Fremont, ca wrote on Jan 23rd, 2016:

Hi,

I am trying to build two volume groups using Cobbler but failed.
I can only see one volume group created.
I also tried
d-i partman-auto-lvm/new_vg_name string lxc exportvg
and
d-i partman-auto-lvm/new_vg_name multiselect lxc, exportvg
but failed as well.
What might be the issues?

Regards,

Kevin SZ

d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select custompartitioning
d-i partman-auto-lvm/new_vg_name string lxc
#d-i partman-auto-lvm/new_vg_name multiselect lxc exportvg
d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \
custompartitioning :: \
512 1 512 ext2 \
$primary{ } \
$bootable{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext2 } \
label{ boot } \
mountpoint{ /boot } \
. \
155648 1 155648 ext4 \
$primary{ } \
method{ lvm } \
device{ /dev/sda2 } \
vg_name{ lxc } \
. \
2048 1 2048 linux-swap \
$lvmok{ } in_vg{ lxc } \
lv_name{ swap00 } \
method{ swap } format{ } \
. \
153600 1 153600 ext4 \
$lvmok{ } in_vg{ lxc } \
lv_name{ root00 } \