Is it possible to avoid partitioning in anaconda to create physical volumes

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Issue

  • Is it possible to avoid partitioning in anaconda to create physical volumes
  • It is sometime preferred to avoid partition table, as it makes resizing a filesystem more difficult.
  • It can also sometime have a performance impact when a good alignment is required (data striped accross disks)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Anaconda Installer

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