Bug 1403910

Summary: Add reference to command to generate LVM conf file in LVM doc
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Steven J. Levine <slevine>
Component: doc-Logical_Volume_ManagerAssignee: Steven J. Levine <slevine>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: ecs-bugs
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Version: 7.4CC: adstrong, agk, msnitzer, prajnoha, rhel-docs, zkabelac
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Description Steven J. Levine 2016-12-12 15:46:05 UTC 
From Peter Rajnoha:

Hi,

regarding this page:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Logical_Volume_Manager_Administration/lvmconf_file.html

Thing here is that the lvm.conf file is changing a lot from release to release - we're adding new items quite often. So maybe it would be good to mention that there's "lvmconfig --type default --withcomments" command that can generate whole lvm.conf with all default values set and with comments added (actually, we do this in upstream to generate the lvm.conf that is packaged then).

We already mentioned lvmconfig command here: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Logical_Volume_Manager_Administration/lvm_dumpconfig.html

But I think it would be good for users to have lvmconfig also mentioned in the sample lvm.conf page for reference and to emphasize that for them to generate complete sample lvm.conf with default values on output (which they can redirect to a file), the can call the lvmconfig --type default --withcomments.

The same applies for RHEL6 doc. Would add the note there please?

-- 
Peter
Comment 1 Steven J. Levine 2017-02-09 13:14:11 UTC 
See BZ#1403912, the RHEL 6 clone of this, for approval of the new text, now added to RHEL 7.4 draft of this document as well.