Non-LVM CIS Compliant Partitioning

[NWarila]

First off, I am going to preface this with a resounding THANK YOU VERY MUCH for this project. I am starting to learn packer starting yesterday and this repo is going to be invaluable as a learning resource moving forward.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Feature request, not related to a problem.

Describe the solution you'd like
One feature already present in this project has been CIS compliant portioning, however, this is currently done via LVM. Would this be possible to add another feature where partitions can actually each be its own virtual disk in Proxmox? This would provide 2 benefits:
1. We can set different drives to different stores, (allowing faster/slower stores per disk)
2. Cloud-Init will automatically expand the drive when its changed, which makes system changes slightly easier when managed via terraform.

Describe alternatives you've considered
N/A

Additional context
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[ajschroeder]

Thank you for the note - glad some people are getting some use out of this repo besides me. 🙂 My use cases when I started this project were to create simple, opinionated VM templates for my homelab as well as learn packer. The builds in the repo follow this model as you have noticed. I hadn't thought about adding more than one disk device, let alone changing the backend storage but I do think that is an interesting idea. I'd be willing to try and template out a multi-disk build in packer, but it would be most likely be a standalone build (at least to start). I wouldn't want to cause breakage in the existing templates until I have a better picture of how this will work out in the end. To clarify, are you trying to avoid using LVM? Also, what is your preferred linux distro? Each distro has their own flavor of autoinstaller so I'd want to research how to accomplish this feature for a distro that you'd be using.

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