[geeks] linux - lvm - fdisk

[Brian Dunbar]

Right! I'm think I need to use filesystem like so ..

- name: ebsx volume format
  filesystem:
    dev: /dev/xvdf
    fstype: ext4
    opts: "something goes here"

ref: http://docs.ansible.com/filesystem_module.html

I might be guilty of overthinking this whole thing.






On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Anthony Ortenzi <geeks at litfire.com> wrote:

> Or perhaps lvol, lvg, filesystem, and mount?
>
> http://docs.ansible.com/lvg_module.html
> http://docs.ansible.com/lvol_module.html
> http://docs.ansible.com/mount_module.html
> http://docs.ansible.com/filesystem_module.html
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Brian Dunbar <brian.dunbar at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > 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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