Not able to create a swap partition with remaining all space in kickstart installation.

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • Not able to create a swap partition with remaining all space in kickstart installation.
  • Using below kickstart configuration for auto-partitioning RHEL6
clearpart --all --initlabel
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=500 --asprimary
part / --fstype ext3 --size=16384 --asprimary
part swap --size=100 --grow --asprimary --maxsize=1048576
  • Expected swap partition size is 880GB, but it created only 137GB.
Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system     Flags
 1      1049kB  525MB   524MB   primary  ext3            boot
 2      525MB   17.7GB  17.2GB  primary  ext3
 3      17.7GB  155GB   137GB   primary  linux-swap(v1)
  • Not able to create swap partition >128GB using kickstart installation.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Kickstart installation

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