[Spacewalk-list] Partitioning

[Mike Wilson]

Thanks for your response.

When you do a manual install of CentOS, you have the option to just clear
all existing partitions, then use all available space with the default
layout. Anaconda just does it for you. Is there an option to do that via
kickstart? I don't want to have to change the kickstart profile for every
different size drive.


On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Jens Skott <jens.skott at schibsted.se> wrote:

> This is how my KS looks like.
> But my disks are Think provisioned in vmware so i assign a 4gb vmdk
> for the sda. I know I had issues with drives allmost exaclty the size
> of the partitions so i added an extra 500 megs to the system disks in
> vmware and it worked like a charm.
>
> clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda
> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=150
> part swap --size=1024
> part pv.01 --size=1 --grow
> volgroup vg_root pv.01
> logvol  /  --vgname=vg_root  --size=1000  --name=lv_root --fstype=ext4
> logvol  /var  --vgname=vg_root  --size=500  --name=lv_var --fstype=ext4
> logvol  /home  --vgname=vg_root  --size=1000  --name=lv_home --fstype=ext4
> logvol  /usr  --vgname=vg_root  --size=1000   --name=lv_usr --fstype=ext4
>
> Jens Skott
> Tel: +46-8-5142 4396
> Schibsted Centralen IT
>
>
>
> 2012/11/13 Mike Wilson <mrwboilers at gmail.com>:
> > First, let me apologize in advance if this is in the wiki and I just
> > overlooked it. (But I did look)
> >
> > I'm setting up a kickstart profile. Can someone point me towards some
> sort
> > of reference on how to configure the partitioning? I thought I had it
> > correct, but I'm trying to kickstart a different machine (with a
> different
> > size disk) and it errored out saying that there isn't enough space left
> for
> > /boot.
> >
> > All I want it to do, is to erase any existing partitions, and use the
> full
> > disk with the default layout. I want this regardless of how big the disk
> is.
> > There must be a simple way to do that, right?
> >
> > Here is what I had in the kickstart profile | System Details |
> partitioning:
> >
> > clearpart --all
> > part /boot --fstype=ext3 --size=200
> > part pv.01 --size=1000 --grow
> > part swap --size=1000   --maxsize=2000
> > volgroup myvg pv.01
> > logvol / --vgname=myvg --name=rootvol --size=1000 --grow
> >
> > This was set by doing a manual install of CentOS (with the default
> layout)
> > and then copying the partition section of /root/anaconda-ks.cfg.
> >
> > I then changed this to just
> >
> > clearpart --all
> > autopart
> >
> > I got the same result:
> >
> > "Could not allocate requested partitions:
> >
> > Partitioning failed: Could not allocate partitions as primary partitions.
> > Not enough space left to create partition for /boot."
> >
> > I realize this isn't necessarily specific to kickstart. Is there any
> > documentation out there on anaconda? My googling led to trying autopart.
> So
> > far I haven't found any other ideas.
> >
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