[BProc] Re: partitioning, scyld

[Daryl W. G. <dw...@la...>]

Attached is a perl script that I use to do this en-mass on our clusters.  I
call it bpformat, and it expects a config file of your partition scheme in
/etc/bpformat.conf (but you can override the location/name on the command
line).  Type 'bpformat --man' to get the man page, esp. for examples of what
the config file should look like.

Daryl

> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 22:06:45 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Steven James <py...@li...>
> To: Luke Palmer <lop...@wi...>
> cc: bpr...@li...
> Subject: Re: [BProc] partitioning, scyld
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I don't know what's up with Scyld, but I can address disk partitioning.
> 
> I just use mknod to create the needed entries in /dev or add something
> like:
> plugin miscfiles /dev/hd*
> in /etc/clustermatic/node_up.conf
> 
> Then partition one node the way I want it with fdisk, and duplicate it
> with sfdisk:
> 
> bpsh 0 fdisk /dev/hda
> <make some partitions>
> bpsh 0 sfdisk -d /dev/hda >part
> bpsh allup sfdisk /dev/hda <part
> 
> G'day,
> sjames
> 
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> On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Luke Palmer wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > This may seem a dumb/obvious question, but I'm trying to figure out how
> > to easily partition disks on slave nodes.  I can't just do 'bpsh X
> > fdisk' because the /dev filesystem isn't present on slave nodes.  So-
> > what's a good way to partition?
> >
> > Of course I read about beofdisk after some google searches.  Now, I know
> > scyld has always liked to more or less hide the ways of getting their
> > software for free, but I can't find scyld ANYWHERE.  I recall that
> > penguin computing has something to do with it now- poked around there
> > too with no luck.  Can any one comment of the fate of scyld?
> >
> > -Luke