Not able to create a swap partition with remaining all space in kickstart installation.
Issue
- Not able to create a
swappartition with remaining all space inkickstartinstallation. - 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
swappartition >128GB using kickstart installation.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Kickstart installation
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