Automating setup of disk_config files

[Henning Sprang]

Ryan Steele wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I was wondering if anybody has come up with, or if there exists, a 
> method or script(s) to automate the creation of the config files in the 
> disk_config/ directory.  

What exactly do you want the auto-generation script to do, or how can an 
auto-generation program know what kind of disk config you need?

 > I have many different classes I need to manage,
> and it's rather laborious to manually construct a disk_config/ file for 
> each one. 

You don't need a disk config file for each class, only for each 
_different_ disk config you need - if all your system should have the 
same disk setup, make a generic class for the disk config and specify 
the more specific things(software install, etc.) with different classes.

 > I'm currently working on a script to automate the creation of
> this file, but before I head too far down that path, I want to make sure 
> nothing already exists to serve this purpose.

As said above, it's not clear to me how such a program should work - 
should it try to "guess" what type of disk config you want for each 
system, should it generate random disk configs, or do you mean to create 
a disk_config from an existing, running system?

Henning