How to align the filesystem partitions as per requirements on a bare metal machine before installation through kickstart?
Issue
The virtual machine has a disk of 17 GiB and I need to align the filesystem as per some requirements. The partitions shall have pre-defined starting and ending sector size as per the following.
- The disk shall have msdos label.
/bootshall be primary partition and start with 128s till 204928s- other remaining shall start with 204930s and shall reach to 100%
- This shall be on LVM
The machine disk is raw and not installed with any other operating system yet.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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