Does the autoyast template contain the format tag for each dasd?
<!-- The dasd attached to the virtual server -->
<dasd>
<devices config:type="list">
<!-- Dasd attached at 0100 -->
<listentry>
<bus>None</bus>
<bus_hwcfg>none</bus_hwcfg>
<channel>0.0.0100</channel>
<format config:type="boolean">true</format>
...
This tag should force autoyast to format each dasd before it tries to put a
partition on it.
Regards,
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Thang Pham
IBM Poughkeepsie
Phone: (845) 433-7567
e-mail: [email protected]
From: Mark Pace <[email protected]>
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>,
Date: 04/03/2013 02:01 PM
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] DIRMAINT commands
One of the problems I've noticed since testing, building, deleting,
rebuilding, is that if the disk already and an existing Linux on it, it
boots the old OS and seems to ignore the IPL=00C. If I format the disk
first, I don't have this problem.
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Thang Pham <[email protected]> wrote:
The reason for not formatting the disk upon delete is it takes some time
for the delete to complete, which could bog you down if you are deleting
>10 nodes at once. Also, the worker machine (DATAMOVE) that does the
deletion is fragile. I have observed cases where a work unit on DATAMOVE
gets stalled on the formatting, and you have to manually take care of the
work unit. We can certainly add an option in rmvm to do the formatting,
if there is a requirement for it.
For now, you can actually modify the zvm.pm plugin to run the NOCLEAN
option. It's pretty simple:
# sed -i 's/Image_Delete_DM -T $userId -e 1/Image_Delete_DM -T
$userId -e 2/g' /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT_plugin/zvm.pm
# service xcatd restart
Using -e 2 will force DirMaint to format the disk.
Another option is to encrypt the partition in autoyast, which would
secure the disk's contents.
<partition>
<crypt>twofish256</crypt>
<crypt_key>abc12345678901234567890</crypt_key>
<loop_fs config:type="boolean">true</loop_fs>
<crypt_fs config:type="boolean">true</crypt_fs>
<filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
<format config:type="boolean">true</format>
<mount>/tmp</mount>
<partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
<size>1GB</size>
<partition_type>primary</partition_type>
</partition>
This sample was taken from this thread:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/2006-06/msg00114.html.
Regards,
-------------------------------------
Thang Pham
IBM Poughkeepsie
Phone: (845) 433-7567
e-mail: [email protected]
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find where the DIRMAINT commands are issued? It appears Mark Pace
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issued? It appears to me that when I do a remove VM comm
From: Mark Pace <[email protected]>
To: xCat <[email protected]>,
Date: 04/03/2013 09:15 AM
Subject: [xcat-user] DIRMAINT commands
Can I find where the DIRMAINT commands are issued? It appears to me that
when I do a remove VM command (rmvm) that it is sending a purge with the
NOCLEAN option. I do not want it done this way. I want the minidisk
cleaned(reformatted). Or is there some reason for this behavior that I
may not understand?
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