Setup partition and Volume Group , Extend Volume Group

This playbook helps you create partitions, physical volumes, volume groups, logical volumes, and extend existing partitions to a volume group

Requirements

• Ansible: Ensure Ansible is installed on your control machine.
• Logical Volume Manager version 2 (LVM2): Install it on target systems. You can install it using apt:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install lvm2

• Update the variables in the files volume_group_init.yml and volume_group_extend.yml to match your environment.
• Create an inventory file specifying the target hosts.Create an inventory file.

Role Variables

• devices: A list of disks to be partitioned.
• vg_name: The name of the volume group.
• lv_name: The name of the logical.
• mount_point : The path where the logical volume will be mounted.

Example Playbook

Initialize Volume Group

Run the following command to create a new volume group:

ansible-playbook volume_group_init.yml -i your_inventory.ini

Extend Volume Group

Run the following command to extend an existing volume group:

ansible-playbook volume_group_extend.yml -i your_inventory.ini

License

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Author Information

Fat2Fast