LOGVOL --grow Seems to Be Broken

[William J. Dennison]

You are correct sir, I completely missed the "=". However it would really be 
nice to know what = should be.

In the documentation it says "--grow= Tells the logical volume to grow to fill 
available space (if any), or up to the maximum size setting.

My sda3 partition is 250GB The volume group is the entire size, I am using 
13GB or so prior to the call for "virtual machines", therefore 
the "virtual_machines" partition should be 230GB or so.

On Tuesday 04 November 2008 01:15:12 pm Tom Callahan wrote:
> It looks like --grow requires an attribute, documentation shows "--grow="
>
> Try --grow=max maybe? Or --grow=y
>
> I have not played with --grow on logvol yet.
>
> On 11/4/08 1:06 PM, "William J. Dennison" <william_dennison at sra.com> wrote:
> > The Kickstart documentation located here
> > (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation
> >_Guid e-en-US/s1-kickstart2-options.html)
> > specifically notes that you can use "--grow" with a "logvol" parameter.
> > When I do this the RHEL5 installation blows up. Is this an issue with
> > Cobbler, Kickstart, RHEL 5 limitations, etc.?
> >
> > Below is my partitioning area in my kickstart file.
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >----- --------------------------------------
> > clearpart --all --initlabel
> >
> > partition /boot --size=1000 --ondisk=sda --asprimary --fstype=ext3
> >
> > partition pv.01 --size=22000 --ondisk=sda --asprimary
> > partition pv.02 --size=1024 --grow --ondisk=sda --asprimary
> >
> > volgroup vg_system pv.01
> > volgroup vg_data pv.02
> >
> > logvol / --vgname=vg_system --size=2000 --name=lv_root --fstype=ext3
> > logvol /swap --vgname=vg_system --size=4000 --name=lv_swap --fstype=swap
> > logvol /usr --vgname=vg_system --size=4000 --name=lv_usr --fstype=ext3
> > logvol /var --vgname=vg_system --size=2000 --name=lv_var --fstype=ext3
> > logvol /var_log --vgname=vg_system --size=2000 --name=lv_var_log
> > --fstype=ext3 logvol /var_log_audit --vgname=vg_system --size=2000
> > --name=lv_var_log_audit --
> > fstype=ext3
> > logvol /var/tmp --vgname=vg_system --size=2000 --name=lv_var_tmp
> > --fstype=ext3 logvol /tmp --vgname=vg_system --size=2000 --name=lv_tmp
> > --fstype=ext3 logvol /opt --vgname=vg_system --size=1000 --name=lv_opt
> > --fstype=ext3
> >
> > logvol /home --vgname=vg_data --size=10000 --name=lv_home --fstype=ext3
> >
> > logvol /opt/store/incomming_data --vgname=vg_data --size=1000
> > --name=lv_incom ming_data --fstype=ext3
> > logvol /opt/store/saved_data --vgname=vg_data --size=1000
> > --name=lv_saved_data --fstype=ext3
> > logvol /opt/store/upload_data --vgname=vg_data --size=1000
> > --name=lv_upload_data --fstype=ext3
> > logvol /opt/store/export_data --vgname=vg_data --size=1000
> > --name=lv_export_data --fstype=ext3
> > logvol /opt/store/webserver --vgname=vg_data --size=1000
> > --name=lv_appserver --fstype=ext3
> > logvol /opt/store/dbserver --vgname=vg_data --size=1000
> > --name=lv_dbserver --fstype=ext3
> > logvol /opt/store/virtual_machines --vgname=vg_data --size=1 --grow
> > --name=lv_virtual_machines --fstype=ext3
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >-----
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >----- ----
> >
> > If I remove the --grow from "virtual_machines", all works fine, if I
> > leave it in the Anaconda load blows up. When I run an interactive
> > install, I notice that the --grow feature is not allowed on logvols.
> >  Does the logvol RED HAT documentation have to be edited?
>
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