Kickstart zerombr - The Volume Group is already in Use

Latest response

Hi,

I have inherited a kickstart file. I was trying to use the kick start to destroy the disk and create some partitions.

This is part of what I inherited.

clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda,sdb
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=512 --ondisk=sda
part pv.2 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=sda
part pv.3 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=sdb
volgroup vg00 --pesize=32768 pv.2 pv.3
logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=slashvol --vgname=vg00 --size=10240
logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=varvol --vgname=vg00 --size=4096
logvol /local/mnt --fstype ext4 --name=localmntvol --vgname=vg00 --size=4096 --grow
logvol swap --fstype swap --name=swapvol --vgname=vg00 --size=12030"

When some machines were reimaged the kickstart stopped and the error message "The volume group name "vg00" is already in use".

Is a reasonable fix to change the disk section so that is reads

zerombr
clearpart --all
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=512 --ondisk=sda
part pv.2 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=sda
part pv.3 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=sdb
volgroup vg00 --pesize=32768 pv.2 pv.3
logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=slashvol --vgname=vg00 --size=10240
logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=varvol --vgname=vg00 --size=4096
logvol /local/mnt --fstype ext4 --name=localmntvol --vgname=vg00 --size=4096 --grow
logvol swap --fstype swap --name=swapvol --vgname=vg00 --size=12030"

I read that initlabel is deprecated. Is there any harm in removing --initlabel and adding zerombr ? Is there another way to get rid of the ..already in use message? I just went onto the machine that was having trouble and fdisked it.

Thanks,

AC

Responses