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I just parted...

The recent disk management utility in the Fedora/RHEL installers are a bit challenging.   Since I don't know why things had changed, I won't bother commenting.  But, I don't find them nearly as easy/convenient as before.... Anyhow...

I installed a 500GB SSD in my Intel NUC to build up as a "NAS" host (NFS and iSCSI).  The OS will take around 20GB, then SWAP, /boot.. whatever.  So, I wanted the remainder of the disk to be in it's own VG

[root@rhel7-nas registry]# parted -l | grep Disk
Disk /dev/sda: 480GB
Disk Flags:
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_exports-lv_registry: 21.5GB
Disk Flags:
Disk /dev/mapper/rhel7--nas-home: 1074MB
Disk Flags:
Disk /dev/mapper/rhel7--nas-swap: 8389MB
Disk Flags:
Disk /dev/mapper/rhel7--nas-root: 32.2GB
Disk Flags:
[root@rhel7-nas ~]# parted -s /dev/sda print free
Model: ATA INTEL SSDSC2BP48 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 480GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                  Flags
        17.4kB  1049kB  1031kB  Free Space
 1      1049kB  211MB   210MB   fat16        EFI System Partition  boot
 2      211MB   735MB   524MB   xfs
 3      735MB   42.4GB  41.7GB                                     lvm
        42.4GB  480GB   438GB   Free Space

[root@rhel7-nas ~]# parted -s /dev/sda mkpart pri ext3 42.4GB 100% set 4 lvm on
[root@rhel7-nas registry]# parted /dev/sda print free
Model: ATA INTEL SSDSC2BP48 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 480GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                  Flags
        17.4kB  1049kB  1031kB  Free Space
 1      1049kB  211MB   210MB   fat16        EFI System Partition  boot
 2      211MB   735MB   524MB   xfs
 3      735MB   42.4GB  41.7GB                                     lvm
 4      42.4GB  480GB   438GB                pri                   lvm
        480GB   480GB   860kB   Free Space
[root@rhel7-nas ~]# partprobe /dev/sda
[root@rhel7-nas ~]# ls -l /dev/sda*
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 0 Dec 15 18:53 /dev/sda
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 1 Dec 15 18:53 /dev/sda1
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 2 Dec 15 18:53 /dev/sda2
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 3 Dec 15 18:53 /dev/sda3
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 4 Dec 15 18:53 /dev/sda4
[root@rhel7-nas ~]# pvcreate /dev/sda4
  Physical volume "/dev/sda4" successfully created
[root@rhel7-nas ~]# vgcreate vg_exports /dev/sda4
  Volume group "vg_exports" successfully created


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