Cobbler, Kickstarts, and the Fedora tree

Having built a fully functional PXE B&B (“boot-and-build”) system with Cobbler + Puppet, it was surprising to learn that Fedora 16 just would not load from the same old process.  After much frustration and digging, it appears that from Fedora 15 to Fedora 16, an additional boot-time kernel argument became required in order to be

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Extending / Adding to existing logical volumes

Sometimes adding a volume to a system is a requirement.  Sometimes an existing logical volume under linux needs to be expanded.  What ever the reason may be, getting to the GUI is not always a guarantee, so the underlying command line functions cannot be forgotten. Step 1: Create the “physical volume” After adding the drive

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