On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:45:41AM +1000, Langdon Stevenson wrote: > Hi > > Can anyone suggest an easy way to repetitively partition a standard > drive set with a standard partition layout? I'm not sure if you want just a partition layout or a partition layout and file systems laid down in the new partitions. If all you want is a partition layout, use sfdisk with output to a file. Then use a rescue disty like Finnix to play the file back on new drives. Then you get to install a file system. Better yet, look at http://www.charlescurley.com/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.html. You don't need the whole kazoo. I think all you need is the script make.fdisk. You will need the install script, which builds some directories for you. Run make.fdisk on a known good system, save the resulting scripts and files, and run them on the targets. Those scripts will also lay down file systems for you. > > I have a hard drive partitioning scheme that I need to replicate > regularly when setting up new servers. Once the partitions are in place > I use G4L to restore a snapshot of the server install. > > I have been looking at using an Ananconda Kickstart file with the > required partition scheme configured in it. This would be ideal, but I > don't know if it is possible to make the installer terminate before it > begins installing the OS. Only by standing there and hitting reset at an opportune moment, as far as I know. > > The partition scheme includes: software raid devices and LVM devices, so > any solution would have to include support for creating them. make.fdisk does handle LVM, but I have done nothing about RAID except as is inherent in LVM. Please let me know how it works. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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