A number of our machines have multiple VDs created (i.e. 2 x 75GB for OS, 2 x 146GB for application). After building an R910 with multiple VDs I discovered that /boot and <SWAP> were on the 75GB device, and the OS was on the 146GB device. I wanted everything on the 75GB. <excerpt from kickstart profile> # STORAGE CONFIGURATION zerombr yes clearpart --all --initlabel bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda,sdb --append="nousbstorage" part /boot --fstype ext4 --size=512 --asprimary --onbiosdisk=81 part pv.1 --size=1 --grow --onbiosdisk=81 volgroup VolGroup00 pv.1 logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --recommended logvol / --fstype ext4 --fsoptions=noatime --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 --grow #logvol / --fstype ext4 --fsoptions=noatime --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=10240 </excerpt> I had found numerous recommendations to deal with this situation. nousbstorage - doesn't really ...
Linux: The whole world made it for you... This blog is a collection of things I come across either at home or at work as a Linux Administrator. I have worked as an Admin working with Solaris, SAN, Backups and Linux at the Enterprise level for over 16 years.