Re: Partition siizes in percent (without using LVM)

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If I understand your problem correctly, you must label the disk as "gpt"
which will allow you to specify larger (>2TB) filesystems. Other gotchas:
don't use fdisk (doesn't support gpt style partition tables) - use parted
instead (not sure if you need to do this in a %pre section or if the
default "part" parameter supports gpt in rhel6+)

I used the following once:

%pre
# Partition alignment
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
parted -s /dev/sda mklabel gpt
parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 2048s 1050624s
parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 1052672s 100%

Note the firs partition starts at 2048 (required for gpt)

Hope that helps
Angus

On 1 August 2016 at 14:08, Felix von Leitner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I need to make a kickstart configuration for Redhat 6.8. It is to form
> the basis for installing a commercial product on it later, and that
> product has some peculiar constraints on what they support and what not.
> That is the reason why this is Redhat 6.8 in the first place.
>
> The system installation is supposed to go on sda, and this works fine,
> but there is an sdb, too, and it is comparatively huge (> 20 TB). The
> constraints of the product say that there should be two partitions on
> sdb, one about 10% of it and one the rest of the space.
>
> The only way I could make this work is with LVM. It now turns out the
> product utterly fails if installed on LVM.
>
> Please note that I'm not blaming anyone for anything here. I just want
> to get this done.
>
> How do you make a partition 10% of the total size without using LVM in
> kickstarter? I found no way, surely I must be missing something obvious.
>
> Would it help if I made a custom DVD with a newer Anaconda binary, say
> from Fedora?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Felix
>
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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div>If I understand your problem correctly, you must=
 label the disk as &quot;gpt&quot; which will allow you to specify larger (=
&gt;2TB) filesystems. Other gotchas: don&#39;t use fdisk (doesn&#39;t suppo=
rt gpt style partition tables) - use parted instead (not sure if you need t=
o do this in a %pre section or if the default &quot;part&quot; parameter su=
pports gpt in rhel6+)<br><br></div><div>I used the following once:<br><br>%=
pre<br># Partition alignment<br>dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/sda bs=3D512 co=
unt=3D1<br>parted -s /dev/sda mklabel gpt<br>parted -s /dev/sda mkpart prim=
ary 2048s 1050624s<br>parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 1052672s 100%<br><b=
r></div><div>Note the firs partition starts at 2048 (required for gpt)<br><=
/div><div><br></div>Hope that helps<br></div>Angus<br><div class=3D"gmail_e=
xtra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On 1 August 2016 at 14:08, Felix von L=
eitner <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" targ=
et=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote c=
lass=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;=
padding-left:1ex">Hi!<br>
<br>
I need to make a kickstart configuration for Redhat 6.8. It is to form<br>
the basis for installing a commercial product on it later, and that<br>
product has some peculiar constraints on what they support and what not.<br=
>
That is the reason why this is Redhat 6.8 in the first place.<br>
<br>
The system installation is supposed to go on sda, and this works fine,<br>
but there is an sdb, too, and it is comparatively huge (&gt; 20 TB). The<br=
>
constraints of the product say that there should be two partitions on<br>
sdb, one about 10% of it and one the rest of the space.<br>
<br>
The only way I could make this work is with LVM. It now turns out the<br>
product utterly fails if installed on LVM.<br>
<br>
Please note that I&#39;m not blaming anyone for anything here. I just want<=
br>
to get this done.<br>
<br>
How do you make a partition 10% of the total size without using LVM in<br>
kickstarter? I found no way, surely I must be missing something obvious.<br=
>
<br>
Would it help if I made a custom DVD with a newer Anaconda binary, say<br>
from Fedora?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Felix<br>
<br>
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art-list</a><br>
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