How to change the starting block of a partition inside the kickstart itself?

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Issue

  • How to change the change the starting block of a partition inside the kickstart itself?

  • For example,  63 is the default. How to change it to 128.

    $ /sbin/fdisk  -lu

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders, total 312500000 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *          63      401624      200781   83  Linux
/dev/sda2          401625   304303229   151950802+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/sda3       304303230   312496379     4096575   82  Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders, total 312500000 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *          63   312496379   156248158+  8e  Linux LVM

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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