Additional overlays to support provision-to-disk without ignition
- sfdisk - partitions the disk - mkfs - formats partitions - mkswap - formats partitions for swap - systemd.mount - explicit creation of systemd mount units - systemd.swap - explicit creation of systemd swap units Signed-off-by: Jonathon Anderson <janderson@ciq.com>
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@@ -454,6 +454,52 @@ Ignition must be included in the Dracut image.
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The necessary file system may alternatively be prepared out-of-band.
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With sfdisk and mkfs
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Systems that do not have access to Ignition (e.g., Rocky Linux 8) can provision
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the root file system using a combination of ``sfdisk`` and ``mkfs``. To use
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them, include ``sfdisk`` and ``mkfs`` in your system overlay. The ``sfdisk`` and
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``mkfs`` overlays provision disk and file systems during the first stage of a
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two-stage boot. This allows the root file system to be provisioned before the
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image is loaded.
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Configure the ``sfdisk`` and ``mkfs`` overlays using resources:
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.. code-block:: shell
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wwctl node set wwnode1 \
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--diskname /dev/vda --diskwipe \
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--partname rootfs --partcreate --partnumber 1 \
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--fsname rootfs --fsformat ext4 --fspath /
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In order to allow Dracut to provision the disk, partition, and file system, some
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additional commands must be included in the Dracut image, depending on which
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functionality is used:
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- **sfdisk:** writes the partition table
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- **blockdev:** used to re-read the partition table after writing
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- **udevadm:** used to trigger udev events after writing the partition table
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- **mkfs:** formats file systems (may also require file-system-specific commands like mkfs.ext4)
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- **mkfs.ext4**, **mkfs.btrfs**, etc: used by mkfs to format specific file systems
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- **wipefs:** used to determine if a file system already exists
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.. code-block:: shell
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wwctl image exec rockylinux-8 -- /usr/bin/dracut --force --no-hostonly \
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--add wwinit \
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--install sfdisk \
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--install blockdev \
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--install udevadm \
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--install mkfs \
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--install mkfs.ext4 \
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--install wipefs \
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--regenerate-all
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Configuring the root device
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