how size of partition is defined for kickstart installation
Hi
I'm installing rhel 5.7 with kickstart with following params for partitions on sda drive (30GB):
clearpart --all --initlabel --linux part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=150 --asprimary --ondisk=sda part pv.1 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sda volgroup rootVG pv.1 logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=root --vgname=rootVG --size=11000 --grow logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=var --vgname=rootVG --size=12000 --grow --maxsize=20000 logvol swap --fstype swap --name=swap --vgname=rootVG --size=8192 logvol /tmp --fstype ext3 --name=tmp --vgname=rootVG --size=4000
I don't quite understand how the size of partitions is defined in such case. This is what I got after installation:
[root@myhost ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/rootVG-root 8.4G 6.0G 2.0G 76% / /dev/mapper/rootVG-var 9.1G 3.0G 5.7G 35% /var /dev/mapper/rootVG-tmp 3.8G 75M 3.6G 3% /tmp /dev/sda1 145M 20M 118M 15% /boot #swap size is exactly the same as defined in kickstart [root@myhost ~]# cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/mapper/rootVG-swap partition 8388600 156 -1
It seems like --size param is interpreted by rhel as "I wish" instead of "I need" :)
Are there are hints how algorithm for granting space for partition works? Does it have some priorities (swap before other types and etc.) ?
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