<div dir="ltr">maybe you can try clearpart before create partition table</div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:00 PM, <<a href="mailto:kickstart-list-request@redhat.com" target="_blank">kickstart-list-request@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send Kickstart-list mailing list submissions to <a href="mailto:kickstart-list@redhat.com">kickstart-list@redhat.com</a> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list</a> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to <a href="mailto:kickstart-list-request@redhat.com">kickstart-list-request@redhat.com</a> You can reach the person managing the list at <a href="mailto:kickstart-list-owner@redhat.com">kickstart-list-owner@redhat.com</a> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Kickstart-list digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Initializing disk with kickstart and parted (Bernd Nies) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bernd Nies <<a href="mailto:bernd.nies@gmail.com">bernd.nies@gmail.com</a>> To: <a href="mailto:kickstart-list@redhat.com">kickstart-list@redhat.com</a> Cc: Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 15:38:25 +0200 Subject: Initializing disk with kickstart and parted 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 _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Kickstart-list@redhat.com">Kickstart-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list</a> </blockquote></div> </div>