%post script for swapfile (was: swapfile instead of swap partition?)

[Shabazian, Chip]

That should work just fine as is 

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[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Robert Citek
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 11:45 AM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: %post script for swapfile (was: swapfile instead of swap
partition?)


On Mar 15, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Shabazian, Chip wrote:
> Just build the system with no swap disk, then create your swap file in

> the %post

On Mar 15, 2006, at 12:21 PM, Philip Rowlands wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Robert Citek wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to specify that the kickstart script should create a 
>> swapfile instead of a swap partition?
>
> I don't believe anaconda (kickstart) has a way of doing this, but it 
> would certainly be possible in a %post script.

Thanks, Chip and Phil.

I'm not that familiar with putting a script in %post.  In a "normal"  
environment, the script would look something like this:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M size=100 mkswap /swapfile echo -e
"/swapfile\tswap\tswap\tdefaults\t0\t0" >> /etc/fstab

 From the docs[1] it looks as though this script will work as-is.  If
that's not the case, how would I need to modify that script so that it
will work in a %post section?  Also, what default interpreter is being
used to run the script: bash, sh, other?  The docs mention that I can
change it, but not what the default is, unless I overlooked it.

Again, thanks in advance for any pointers.

[1] http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-
guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html#S2-KICKSTART2-POSTINSTALLCONFIG

Regards,
- Robert
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