KS won't partition drives
Keegan, Gordon
Gordon.Keegan at FMR.COM
Wed Aug 11 14:39:15 UTC 2004
There isn't an ext3 filesystem or swap area on sda4. Since it is the
last primary partition, sda4 becomes the Extended partition which then
contains sda5 thru sda8:
# fdisk /dev/sda
.....
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 8908 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 16 128488+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 17 277 2096482+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 278 538 2096482+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 539 8908 67232025 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 539 799 2096451 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 800 929 1044193+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 930 1059 1044193+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 1060 1189 1044193+ 83 Linux
Command (m for help): q
# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 2063536 822132 1136580 42% /
/dev/sda1 124427 24143 93860 21% /boot
/dev/sda8 1027768 16600 958960 2% /export/home
/dev/sda7 1027768 103052 872508 11% /app1
none 2317152 0 2317152 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda6 1027768 16468 959092 2% /tmp
/dev/sda5 2063504 76748 1881936 4% /var
You're welcome!
Gordon
----- Original Message -----
thanx
and please can you tell me how the partitions were named any sda4 is
present
john
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keegan, Gordon" <Gordon.Keegan at FMR.COM>
To: "Discussion list about Kickstart" <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 11:08 PM
Subject: RE: KS won't partition drives
> Our slightly different experience is that for kickstaring Advanced
> Server 2.1, we specify "--asprimary" for the swap partition, then have
> ks.cfg create 6 additional parirtitions. I can't say offhand if it's
> the --asprimary or something else, but we are kickstarting 7
(non-raid)
> partitions just fine. The relevant section in our ks.cfg:
>
> clearpart --all --initlabel
> part swap --size 2047 --asprimary --ondisk sda
> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 128 --ondisk sda
> part / --fstype ext3 --size 2047 --ondisk sda
> part /var --fstype ext3 --size 2047 --ondisk sda
> part /tmp --fstype ext3 --size 1023 --ondisk sda
> part /app1 --fstype ext3 --size 1023 --ondisk sda
> part /export/home --fstype ext3 --size 1 --ondisk sda --grow
> --maxsize 1024
>
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