Using autopart under RHEL 5.1 kickstart - resizing default /bootsize

[Gerrard Geldenhuis]

Hi Kent,

 

I believe you can use percentages as sizes, which if you do would mean
that you would still only need one partitioning definition. I am not
sure how intelligent autopart is and if it also just uses percentages.

 

Regards

 

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[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Kent Baxley
Sent: 15 May 2008 17:46
To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
Subject: Using autopart under RHEL 5.1 kickstart - resizing default
/bootsize

 

I am using autopart to automate the creation of partitions and logical
volumes during a kickstart install (RHEL5.1).  The default size of the
/boot partitions created by autopart is 100 meg.  I am looking for a way
to increase this default size of /boot when autopart created the
partition.  Is there a way to do this?

I have played with part but have not found an easy method to change the
default in autopart without having to write a lot of code around the
whole proces and create the LV volumes myself.  I've got a lot of
different hardware environments, so, I'd like autopart to do some of the
work for me.

Here is the code currently being used to automate the creating the
partitions and Logical Volumes.  NOTE:  The ${IGNORE_DRIVES} variable
can change from machine to machine and is set by my own code but can be
removed without affecting default autopart partition sizes.


$pre
autopart
ignoredisk -drives=${IGNORE_DRIVES}


This code creates default partitions and logical volumes as advertised
by the RHEL 5 kickstart document.  The manuals claim that part can be
used to change the default partition sizes that autopart creates.  So
far, I have not been able to change the /boot partition from 100 mb.

Thanks.

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