Kickstart – Dont Wipe Data
Hi, I am struggling with kickstart. What I want to achieve is a reinstall, but some data partitions should survive the install, i.e. they should not be formatted. With a single disk this works, here is the relevant part from the kickstart file (I shortened the name of the volume group)
… zerombr clearpart –none –initlabel part /boot –fstype=”xfs” –label=boot –onpart=vda1
part pv.00 –fstype=”lvmpv” –onpart=vda2 –noformat volgroup v –noformat logvol / –fstype=xfs –name=wurzel –vgname=v –useexisting logvol /home –fstype=ext4 –name=home –vgname=v –noformat
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you see, / will be reformatted, /boot will be reformatted, but /home will not.
Now a machine with md raid 1. I tried the following.
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#zerombr
#clearpart –none –initlabel
part raid.01 –onpart vda1 –noformat part raid.02 –onpart vdb1 –noformat raid /boot –fstype xfs –label boot –level 1 –device md0 –noformat
part raid.11 –onpart vda2 –noformat part raid.12 –onpart vdb2 –noformat raid pv.00 –level 1 –device md1 –noformat
volgroup v –noformat logvol / –fstype=xfs –name=wurzel –vgname=v –useexisting logvol /home –fstype=ext4 –name=home –vgname=v –noformat
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But I get
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02:54:21,069 ERR anaconda: storage configuration failed: The following problem occurred on line 6 of the kickstart file:
No preexisting RAID device with the name “0” was found.
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What is wrong? I really want preserve data and only wipe system.
2 thoughts on - Kickstart – Dont Wipe Data
Hi!
I think that your problem is here
volgroup v pv.00 –noformat
2014-08-07 13:06 GMT+03:00 Markus Falb:
This gives another error
… Members may not be specified for preexisting volgroup
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This is not documented in the Installation Guide, but at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda it is stated
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–noformat
Use an existing volume group. Do not specify partitions when using this option.
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Also note that this line works for the one disk install!
Thanks anyways, Markus