Hi, We're using the following kickstart pre script to create partitions in the order we want on VMware ESX. By default the swap partition is put as the last partition which makes it difficult to resize the root partition on ESX server. But now kickstart always complains that drives must be initialized. Can't use the clearpart --initlabel in that case because this will destroy the partition table. Any ideas how to do this with parted or tell kickstart to do the initlable with out deling partition table? Thanks in advance. Regards, Bernd %pre PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin" set $(list-harddrives) let numd=$#/2 disk0=$1 case $(dmidecode -s system-product-name) in VMware*) # Overwrite Master Boot Record dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/${disk0} bs=512 count=1 # Partition must start at sector that is multiple of 8. # 8 * 1 Sector (512 Bytes) = 4096 Bytes (Netapp Block Size) parted -s /dev/${disk0} mklabel msdos parted -s /dev/${disk0} mkpart primary ext4 2048s 1023999s parted -s /dev/${disk0} mkpart primary ext4 1024000s 17801215s parted -s /dev/${disk0} mkpart primary ext4 17801216s 100% # Don't use LVM. It's not supported by gparted. # Don't put swap as last partition. Makes resizing vmdk easier. cat >/tmp/partitions.ks <<-==EOF== bootloader --location=mbr partition /boot --onpart=${disk0}1 --fstype=ext4 partition swap --onpart=${disk0}2 --fstype=swap partition / --onpart=${disk0}3 --fstype=ext4 ==EOF== ;; *) # Office Workstations and rest cat >/tmp/partitions.ks <<-==EOF== zerombr ignoredisk --only-use=${disk0} bootloader --location=mbr clearpart --all --drives=${disk0} --initlabel partition /boot/efi --ondisk=${disk0} --asprimary --fstype=vfat --size=200 partition /boot --ondisk=${disk0} --asprimary --fstype=ext4 --size=500 partition swap --ondisk=${disk0} --asprimary --fstype=swap --recommended partition / --ondisk=${disk0} --asprimary --fstype=ext4 --size=4096 --grow ==EOF== ;; esac %end