disk formats disks and mount them.
The disk step will format disk as a single big partition and mount them so
they can be used on the system. This step uses a specification file with a disk
specification per line. In the specification file, lines starting with a hash
mark # and empty lines are ignored. Otherwise, each line should contain a
number of fields separated by the : (colon) sign. These fields are, in order:
- Device to be formatted and mounted, e.g.
sdb. This should not contain the leading/dev. - Filesystem to use on the disk, e.g.
ext4(the default, see below). Support for this filesystem should be present within the OS and can be arranged through the packages step if necessary. - Directory where to mount, defaults to
/mnt/disks/followed by the name of the device. - Colon separated mount options, defaults to
defaults,discard,nofail. - Name of user owning the mount point, defaults to
root. - Group owning the mount point, defaults to
root. - Permissions for the mount point, defaults to
a+w.
Specifies the path to the disk specification file.
The value of this option should be a boolean (yes/no, true/false,
on/off, an integer). When it is true, the disk will be reformatted even if
it already contains a filesystem.
Options to give to mkfs.ext4, these defaults to
-m 0 -E lazy_itable_init=0,lazy_journal_init=0,discard.
This environment variable is the same as the --db option.
This environment variable is the same as the --overwrite
option.
This environment variable is the same as the --ext4 option. The
name of this variable is constructed out of the filesystem chosen for disk
initialisation, converted to uppercase. So, if the chosen filesystem was xfs,
the value of PRIMER_STEP_DISK_XFS, if present, would be given as a set of
options to mkfs.xfs.
The filesystem type to use when formatting the disk, defaults to ext4.
Supports for this filesystem has to exist on the host OS.