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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thank you all! Always helpful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Sulove<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='color:black'><spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com> on behalf of <lists@alderfamily.org><br><b>Reply-To: </b><steve@alderfamily.org>, <spacewalk-list@redhat.com><br><b>Date: </b>Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 5:48 PM<br><b>To: </b><spacewalk-list@redhat.com><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Spacewalk-list] Kickstart File - Increase Root Partition Size<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>In a kickstart you cannot use autopart and also define any partition to be a particular size. It is one or the other.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://pykickstart.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kickstart-docs.html#autopart">https://pykickstart.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kickstart-docs.html#autopart</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I prefer to have more control over the disk layout, myself, and use the same method as Stefan. But it depends upon your needs. Sounds like you have a need to define your partitions.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kickstart is powerful. I have found only a very few limitations in it, and those have always been in the sysroot’d environment itself not in Kickstart.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Steve<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stefan Bluhm<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 14, 2020 15:11<br><b>To:</b> spacewalk-list <spacewalk-list@redhat.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Spacewalk-list] Kickstart File - Increase Root Partition Size</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Hello Sulove,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>as far as I am aware, by default on RHEL it is using the full HDD as root after a /boot and a swap default.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>This is how I do custom partition my servers:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Go to Systems --> Kickstart --> Profiles --> <Label> --> System Details --> Partitioning --> Partition Details</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Enter</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>part /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=500<br>part pv.01 --grow --size=1<br>part swap --size=1000 --maxsize=2000 <br>volgroup vg_main --pesize=4096 pv.01<br>logvol /var/log --fstype=ext4 --name=lv_log --vgname=vg_main --size=1000<br>logvol / --fstype=ext4 --name=lv_root --vgname=vg_main --size=1 --grow<br>logvol swap --name=lv_swap --vgname=vg_main --size=2016</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>This creates:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- /boot 500MB as ext4</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- swap between 1GB to 2GB (I think this is autoscaled to memory 1:1)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- /log 1GB as ext4</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- / [root] for the rest</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>I hope this helps.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Best wishes,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Stefan</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Von: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>"Sulove Khanal" <<a href="mailto:skhanal@aplura.com">skhanal@aplura.com</a>><br><b>An: </b>"spacewalk-list" <<a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a>><br><b>Gesendet: </b>Donnerstag, 14. Mai 2020 15:22:29<br><b>Betreff: </b>[Spacewalk-list] Kickstart File - Increase Root Partition Size</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Hello,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>I’m looking to increase the size of the root partition in my Spacewalk kickstart file to 20GB. It is currently defaulted to 8GB when I boot up a new VM based off the kickstart file. The kickstart is also set to autopart –type=lvm. I am using Centos 7. I haven’t found how to increase the size of the root partition while still using the autopart option in the kickstart from my research online. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Is this possible?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Thank you,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Sulove</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Spacewalk-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com">Spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a><br><a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>_______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>