Why was the swap partition allocated on the last partition of the disk with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kickstart installation
Issue
- I installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 on IBM Power server with the following partitioning scheme in kickstart file.
part prepboot --asprimary --fstype="PReP" --ondisk=disk/by-id/dm-uuid-mpath-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --size=4
part /boot --asprimary --fstype="ext2" --ondisk=disk/by-id/dm-uuid-mpath-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --size=512 --label=boot
part swap --asprimary --fstype="swap" --ondisk=disk/by-id/dm-uuid-mpath-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --size=8192
part pv.1 --asprimary --fstype="lvmpv" --ondisk=disk/by-id/dm-uuid-mpath-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --size=32251
- The installation completed successfully, but the swap partition was allocated on the last partition of the disk.
/dev/mapper/mpatha1 * 2048 10239 4096 41 PPC PReP Boot
/dev/mapper/mpatha2 10240 1058815 524288 83 Linux
/dev/mapper/mpatha3 1058816 67108863 33025024 8e Linux LVM
/dev/mapper/mpatha4 67108864 83886079 8388608 82 Linux swap / Solaris
- Can we make it allocate the swap partition in the 3rd partition of the disk?
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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