CentOS - Apr 2013 - Kickstart just create /boot, recommended swap and / with whatever is left.

Howdy,

The default partitioning scheme appears to be:

swap
/boot
/ small amount of space
/home remainder of space.

Is there any way via kickstart to have it just create swap with the recommended
size, /boot, and then just / with the remainder without manually specifying the
names of the lvs/vgs etc?

I figured there would be an autopart -atomic option but that doesn't seem to
exist.

Any advice?

Thanks,
-Drew

Drew Weaver wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> The default partitioning scheme appears to be:
>
> swap
> /boot
> / small amount of space
> /home remainder of space.
>
> Is there any way via kickstart to have it just create swap with the
> recommended size, /boot, and then just / with the remainder without
> manually specifying the names of the lvs/vgs etc?
>
> I figured there would be an autopart -atomic option but that doesn't
seem
> to exist.
>
Where'd you get the kickstart?

You can certainly set it up any way you want, though a large /home seems
reasonable if you've only got one drive, unless you want /boot, swap, and
/.

Btw, the old received wisdom was that swap should be 2-2.5 times RAM; for
some years now, though, it's been just 2G, and leave it at that.

        mark

On 04/02/2013 10:19 PM, Drew Weaver wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> The default partitioning scheme appears to be:
>
> swap
> /boot
> / small amount of space
> /home remainder of space.
>
> Is there any way via kickstart to have it just create swap with the
recommended size, /boot, and then just / with the remainder without manually
specifying the names of the lvs/vgs etc?
>
> I figured there would be an autopart -atomic option but that doesn't
seem to exist.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Thanks,
> -Drew
>
>
Hi Drew,

Here is what I use, without lvm. I allocate a LV for each VM. This way I 
get the recommended swap size for the amount of memory I have and '/' 
will grow on all remaining disk space. If you have other disks that you 
want to use later go with "ignoredisk --only-use=sda".

# Disk partitioning information
part /boot --asprimary --fstype="ext4" --size=300
part swap --recommended
part / --asprimary --fstype="ext4" --grow --size=1


//bazy