Currently we're using hardware raid volumes of about 4TB. We use one small partition for /boot, and the rest as an lvm pv. AFAIK there's no option to label a disk with GPT apart from using parted in %pre. Something like 'clearpart --initlabel=gpt' would be great.
Please have a look here http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#clearpart From what I can see that is an option to use -initlable= with clearpart.. Please confirm....
I don't see that at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#clearpart. Is there support in the code? Maybe the documentation is wrong.
*** Bug 834709 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I looked into modifying clearpart --initlabel to take a parameter and it would result in some ugly hacks in pykickstart. We do have the gpt boot flag that you can pass on the kernel cmdline that will use gpt as the default disklabel.
GPT shouldn't "special" or problematic. It should easily be handled inside of kickstart just like any other kind of partitioning.
Hi Brian, Thanks for looking into this. I wasn't familiar with the gpt bootflag, I'll check it out. Shouldn't this be documented in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options?