salt.states.blockdev

Management of Block Devices

A state module to manage blockdevices

/dev/sda:
  blockdev.tuned:
    - read-only: True

master-data:
  blockdev.tuned:
    - name: /dev/vg/master-data
    - read-only: True
    - read-ahead: 1024

New in version 2014.7.0.

salt.states.blockdev.formatted(name, fs_type='ext4', force=False, **kwargs)

Manage filesystems of partitions.

name
The name of the block device
fs_type
The filesystem it should be formatted as
force

Force mke2fs to create a filesystem, even if the specified device is not a partition on a block special device. This option is only enabled for ext and xfs filesystems

This option is dangerous, use it with caution.

New in version 2016.11.0.

salt.states.blockdev.tuned(name, **kwargs)

Manage options of block device

name
The name of the block device
opts:
  • read-ahead
    Read-ahead buffer size
  • filesystem-read-ahead
    Filesystem Read-ahead buffer size
  • read-only
    Set Read-Only
  • read-write
    Set Read-Write

Docs for previous releases are available on readthedocs.org.

Latest Salt release: 2016.11.1

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