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Script to create mount points in LVM

Published: February 19, 2019 | Modified: June 24, 2020 | 1,933 views



Here is a little script to create a mount point using CSV file which has a mount point name, size, and VG name.

Script to create mount points in LVM

Caution : Use script on your own risk!

Do not use it on production servers. Test it and use it on newly built/dev/testing servers.

Below is the script code. Save it under /tmp/lvm_script.sh and also save your CSV file under the same directory with the name list.csv

CSV file format is mount point name,size in GB,VG name. For example : /data,10,data_vg

Script code :

#Script to create mount point using CSV file
#Author : Shrikant Lavhate (kerneltalks.com)
#Save CSV file as list.csv in current working directory with format mount point name,size in GB,VG name

chckfail()
{
        if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
                echo "Check error above. Halting..."
                exit 1
        fi
}

for i in `cat list.csv`
do
        kt_mountname=`echo $i | cut -d, -f1`
        kt_lvname=`echo $i |cut -d, -f1|cut -c 2-|tr / _`
        kt_vgname=`echo $i | cut -d, -f3`
        kt_lvsize=`echo $i | cut -d, -f2`
        kt_lvsize="${kt_lvsize}G"
        lvcreate -n $kt_lvname -L $kt_lvsize $kt_vgname >/dev/null
        chckfail
        mkfs.ext4 /dev/$kt_vgname/$kt_lvname >/dev/null
        chckfail
        mkdir -p $kt_mountname >/dev/null
        chckfail
        mount /dev/$kt_vgname/$kt_lvname $kt_mountname>/dev/null
        chckfail
        echo "/dev/$kt_vgname/$kt_lvname $kt_mountname ext4 defaults 0 0">>/etc/fstab
        chckfail
done

Breaking the code :

Quick walk through above code.

  • Part one is chckfail function which used to check if the command ran is successful or not. If the command failed, it will stop the execution of the script and exits.
  • Variable part extracts mount point name, size, VG to be used details from CSV file. It also creates LV names out of mount point name in CSV
  • Standard LVM commands to create LV, format it with EXT4, create mount point directory, and mount LV on it.
  • Finally, it adds an entry to /etc/fstab for the persistent mount.

Modifying script for your requirement :

  1. If you are using size in MB then remove line kt_lvsize="${kt_lvsize}G"
  2. If you are using size in TB then replace G with T in above mentioned line.
  3. If you are using filesystem other than ext4 then change mkfs.ext4 & /etc/fstab command accordingly.
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Comments

  1. HZ says

    February 21, 2019 at 4:48 pm

    What do you think about this: https://gist.github.com/haa-zee/48ef0acc1da97cb6c7b68f3935e6eea2 ?

    Reply
    • Shrikant Lavhate says

      February 21, 2019 at 6:26 pm

      More concise & perfect! Kudos!

      Reply

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