[virtualization-guide] minor update, Partition -virsh in progress

Chris Curran tsagadai at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jun 17 07:14:53 UTC 2010


commit f49193e1ba9f682c1de429d5341405834149be51
Author: Chris Curran <ccurran at redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Jun 17 17:14:41 2010 +1000

    minor update, Partition -virsh in progress

 en-US/Storage_Pools_Partitions.xml |   37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/Storage_Pools_Partitions.xml b/en-US/Storage_Pools_Partitions.xml
index b798572..7b25502 100644
--- a/en-US/Storage_Pools_Partitions.xml
+++ b/en-US/Storage_Pools_Partitions.xml
@@ -145,23 +145,44 @@
 				<para>
 				Use the virsh <command>pool-define-as</command> command to create a new storage pool definition. There are three options that must be provided to define a pre-formatted disk as a storage pool:
 			</para>
-				<itemizedlist>
+			<variablelist><varlistentry><term>Partition name</term><listitem>
+						<para>
+							The <parameter>name</parameter> parameter determines the name of the storage pool. This example uses the name <replaceable>guest_images_fs</replaceable> in the example below.
+						</para>
+					</listitem></varlistentry>
+					<!--<varlistentry><term> &lt;device path='<replaceable>/dev/sdb</replaceable>'/&gt;</term>
 					<listitem>
 						<para>
-						The <parameter>name</parameter> of the storage pool. All further <command>virsh</command> command used for this storage pool use the name defined by this option.
-					</para>
+							The <parameter>device</parameter> parameter with the <parameter>path</parameter> attribute
+							specifies the device path of the storage device. This example uses the device <replaceable>/dev/sdb</replaceable> .
+						</para>
+					</listitem></varlistentry>
+					<varlistentry><term>&lt;target&gt; &lt;path&gt;<replaceable>/dev</replaceable>&lt;/path&gt;</term>
+					<listitem>
 						<para>
-						The name <replaceable>guest_images_fs</replaceable> is used in this example.
-					</para>
-					</listitem>
+							The file system <parameter>target</parameter> parameter with the <parameter>path</parameter> sub-parameter determines the location on the host file system to attach volumes created with this this storage pool.
+						</para>
+						<para>
+							For example, sdb1, sdb2, sdb3. Using <replaceable>/dev/</replaceable>, as in the example below, means volumes created from this storage pool can be accessed as <replaceable>/dev</replaceable>/sdb1, <replaceable>/dev</replaceable>/sdb2, <replaceable>/dev</replaceable>/sdb3.
+						</para>
+					</listitem></varlistentry>
+					<varlistentry><term>&lt;format type='<replaceable>gpt</replaceable>'/&gt;</term>
 					<listitem>
 						<para>
-						The <parameter>/path/to/source</parameter> to the formatted file system. If the directory does not exist, the <command>virsh</command> command can create the directory.
+							The <parameter>format</parameter> parameter specifies the partition table type. his example uses the  <replaceable>gpt</replaceable> in the example below, to match the GPT disk label type created in the previous step.
+						</para>
+					</listitem></varlistentry>-->
+				</variablelist>	
+			
+			<!--<listitem>
+						<para>
+						The <replaceable>/path/to/source</replaceable> to the formatted file system. If the directory does not exist, the <command>virsh</command> command can create the directory.
 					</para>
 						<para>
 						The directory <replaceable>/guest_images</replaceable> is used in this example.
 					</para>
 					</listitem>
+					
 					<listitem>
 						<para>
 						The <parameter>mountpoint</parameter> on the local file system where the formatted device will be mounted. If the mount point directory does not exist, the <command>virsh</command> command can create the directory.
@@ -170,7 +191,7 @@
 						The directory <replaceable>/guest_images</replaceable> is used in this example.
 					</para>
 					</listitem>
-				</itemizedlist>
+				</itemizedlist>-->
 				<screen># virsh pool-define-as <replaceable>guest_images_fs</replaceable> fs - - <replaceable>/dev/sdc1</replaceable> - "<replaceable>/guest_images</replaceable>"
 Pool guest_images_fs defined
 </screen>


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