[geeks] linux - lvm - fdisk

[Brian Dunbar]

Haw.  I'm using Ansible.

I don't object to learning a new tool but it's overkill for this use-case:
be quicker to just insert a step like "login to the host and execute fdisk"


On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Anthony Ortenzi <geeks at litfire.com> wrote:

> Isn't AWS Opsworks just Chef? Someone must have made a chef recipe for
> this.
> On May 15, 2014 2:38 PM, "Brian Dunbar" <brian.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My goal is to use an EC2 instance (Ubuntu) and mount from two to four EBS
> > volumes as a single mount point.
> >
> > The driver is that size limit on an EBS volume is 1024mb, and we have
> more
> > data to store than that.
> >
> > (Long range plans are to use S3 as a store for this data, but that's 'in
> > the future')
> >
> > What I envision is provisioning a host, use LVM to setup a volume group,
> > containing two EBS volumes, for a 2tb 'disk'.  As needed, I create a new
> > volume, add it to the instance, then the VG.
> >
> > How-tos [1] indicate one needs to format the drive first, using fdisk,
> set
> > partition type to 8e (Linux LVM).
> >
> > Okay, I can do that, but I'd really prefer to script it.
> >
> >
> > [1] example
> >
> >
> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/40702/how-to-manage-and-use-lvm-logical-volume-management-in-ubuntu/
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On 15 May 2014, at 18:44, Brian Dunbar <brian.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Lame question re: LVM. I want to use mkfs.ext3 to format the disk
> > _with_
> > > > partition type 8e (lvm).  I.e. have it 'happen' by script, vice
> running
> > > > fdisk manually.
> > > >
> > > > Can this be done?  man seems to say 'yes' but is short on bold text
> > > saying
> > > > 'type this in, dummy'
> > >
> > > I'm not quite sure what your trying to achieve here, so I'm not sure...
> > >
> > > LVM, as I understand it, exists above the base partition scheme, with
> > > partitions being used as physical volumes into which you add volume
> > groups
> > > and
> > > logical volumes. I had to get my head around this to use Xen VMs on a
> > > debian
> > > server, but I'm by no means an expert.
> > >
> > > I don't know, are you trying to format a bare metal drive to contain a
> > > single
> > > a LVM ext3 logical volume?
> > > Or, are you trying to remove the LVM junk and format the drive with a
> > > single
> > > common-or-garden ext 3 partition?
> > >
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Brian Dunbar

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