kickstart

robertkwild · 07-03-2018, 09:03 AM

hi all,

im trying to setup/configure a hard drive manually for my kickstart file

how much space/size should each of the below partitions be and what one should be the biggest, also should they be all xfs format?

normally when i do a install of centos 7 i just tick the hard drive i want linux on and it just does it but how would i do it manually

/
/boot
/home
/var
/tmp
/usr
/opt

cheers,
rob

michaelk · 07-03-2018, 11:00 AM

By default CentOS creates a /boot partiton and an LVM partitions with /, /home and swap logical volumes.

Do you want to use LVM and do you really need that many separate partitions?

The major downside to xfs is that there isn't a tool to shrink the filesystem. If you think you might want to "adjust" the partition sizes then I would use ext4.

TB0ne · 07-03-2018, 11:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by robertkwild

hi all,
im trying to setup/configure a hard drive manually for my kickstart file how much space/size should each of the below partitions be and what one should be the biggest, also should they be all xfs format? normally when i do a install of centos 7 i just tick the hard drive i want linux on and it just does it but how would i do it manually

/
/boot
/home
/var
/tmp
/usr
/opt

I'd agree with EXT4 for resizing, but not really sure what you're asking here or why. You can look at any of your other kickstart configurations, and get the sizes from them, or look into the ISO (after mounting it or burning it to a DVD) to see how large those things are. You seem to have been working with kickstart for three years now:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...me-4175560474/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...or-4175572384/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...es-4175572502/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...de-4175572601/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...on-4175572672/