FYi, we're using software raid, but I'm only wanting to utilize the first two disks for the raid volumes, and have two raid "partitions" created, along with 2 PV's and 2 LV's, so we have a /dev/md0 bootable drive that's 200GB and a "write" drive that's 600GB and /dev/md1.
I have no problem doing this manually through the installer, just wondering how to automate it? Whenever I automate it, it allocates all 800GB on each disk for RAID 1, and just created a /dev/md0.
# Disk Partitioning
# Use LVM, and wipe out anything that already exists
d-i partman/early_command string vgs --separator=: --noheadings | cut -f1 -d: |
while read vg ; do vgchange -an \$vg ; done ; pvs --separator=: --noheadings | c
ut -f1 -d: | while read pv ; do pvremove -ff -y \$pv ; done; mdadm --stop --forc
e /dev/md*; /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1; /bin/dd if=/dev/zer
o of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1; /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=1; /
bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd bs=512 count=1; /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde
bs=512 count=1; /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdf bs=512 count=1; /bin/dd if=/de
v/zero of=/dev/sdg bs=512 count=1; /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdh bs=512 count
=1;
# Disk Partitioning
d-i partman-basicfilesystems/choose_label string gpt
d-i partman-basicfilesystems/default_label string gpt
d-i partman-partitioning/choose_label string gpt
d-i partman-partitioning/default_label string gpt
d-i partman/choose_label string gpt
d-i partman/default_label string gpt
d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
d-i partman-md/device_remove_md boolean true
d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true
d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda /dev/sdb
d-i partman-auto/method string raid
d-i partman-auto-lvm/new_vg_name string vg0
d-i partman-auto-lvm/guided_size string 50%
d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \
efi-lvm :: \
256 10 256 free \
\$iflabel{ gpt } \
method{ biosgrub } \
\$primary{ } \
\$lvmignore{ } \
format{ } \
.\
50% 30 50% raid \
\$gptonly{ } \
\$lvmignore{ } \
\$primary{ } \
method{ raid } \
.\
140000 50 140000 ext4 \
\$defaultignore{ } \
\$lvmok{ } \
lv_name{ root } \
method{ format } \
format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } \
filesystem{ ext4 } \
mountpoint{ / } \
label{ Root } \
.\
6000 40 6000 swap \
\$defaultignore{ } \
\$lvmok{ } \
lv_name{ swap } \
method{ swap } \
format{ } \
.
d-i partman-auto-raid/recipe string \
1 2 0 lvm - /dev/sda2#/dev/sdb2 \
.
d-i partman-md/confirm boolean true
d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i partman/choose_partition select Finish partitioning
and write changes to disk
d-i partman/confirm boolean true
d-i partman-md/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
d-i mdadm/boot_degraded boolean true