Hey all,

I have a custom kickstart that I am using to partition out the hard drive based upon the size of the drive. If the drive is bigger than 250GB, then I want to partition out the drive one way and if the drive is smaller than that, then I want to partition out the drive another way. The code below works and correctly partitions the system based on the hard drive size:

platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T

%include /tmp/part-include

version=DEVEL

%pre

!/bin/sh

TOTAL=

parted -s /dev/sda unit mb print free | grep Free | awk '{print $3}' | cut -d "M" -f1

echo "# Clear the Master Boot Record" > /tmp/part-include
echo "zerombr" >> /tmp/part-include
echo "# Partition clearing information" >> /tmp/part-include
echo "clearpart --all --initlabel" >> /tmp/part-include
echo "# Disk partitioning information" >> /tmp/part-include
echo "part / --fstype ext3 --grow --size=3968" >> /tmp/part-include
echo "part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=128" >> /tmp/part-include
echo "part /home --fstype ext3 --size=1024">> /tmp/part-include
echo "part /var --fstype ext3 --grow --size=$VAR_MIN_SIZE" >> /tmp/part-include
echo "part /tmp --fstype ext3 --grow --size=$TMP_MIN_SIZE" >> /tmp/part-include
echo "part swap --fstype swap --size=2048" >> /tmp/part-include
echo "part /var/log/audit --fstype ext3 --size=1024" >> /tmp/part-include
echo "part /var/log --fstype ext3 --size=1024" >> /tmp/part-include
%end

However, when I try to increase the default size for /tmp and /var in the above code or use the following code:

platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T

%include /root/part-include

version=DEVEL

%pre --log=/root/pre.log

!/bin/sh

TOTAL=

parted -s /dev/sda unit mb print free | grep Free | awk '{print $3}' | cut -d "M" -f1

if [ "$TOTAL" -ge 256000 ]
then
#This set the minimum var partiton size to 150GB if the HD has more than 250GB
echo "part /var --fstype ext3 --grow --size=153600" >> /root/part-include
#This set the minimum tmp partiton size to 20GB if the HD has more than 250GB
echo "part /tmp --fstype ext3 --grow --size=20480" >> /root/part-include
else
echo "part /var --fstype ext3 --size=10240" >> /root/part-include
echo "part /tmp --fstype ext3 --size=1024" >> /root/part-include
fi

echo "part swap --fstype swap --size=2048" >> /root/part-include
echo "part /var/log/audit --fstype ext3 --size=1024" >> /root/part-include
echo "part /var/log --fstype ext3 --size=1024" >> /root/part-include
%end

The system isn't partitioned correctly. Instead it partitions the system with these sizes:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda9 241G 1.1G 227G 1% /
tmpfs 937M 0 937M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 124M 36M 83M 31% /boot
/dev/sda5 1008M 34M 924M 4% /home
/dev/sda6 1008M 34M 924M 4% /tmp
/dev/sda2 9.9G 187M 9.2G 2% /var
/dev/sda7 1008M 35M 923M 4% /var/log
/dev/sda8 1008M 34M 924M 4% /var/log/audit
/dev/sr0 541M 541M 0 100% /media

I haven't been able to see what I'm doing wrong or and I don't know if I'm just running into some limits.