How to format a complete disk, without creating any patition, with a filesystem using kickstart?

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise 8

Issue

  • How to create the XFS file system directly on the block device without creating any partition on it?

Resolution

Example:
Format the /dev/sdc disk with xfs filesystem and mount it on /data

part /data --fstype="xfs" --onpart=sdc

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