Hi,
More often than not, when installing CentOS, I choose manual partitioning and then apply the KISS principle, with a very simple partitioning scheme that looks more or less like this:
- /boot partition: 500 MB, ext2
- swap partition: equivalent to amount of RAM
- root partition: available space, ext4
Now when I do this, Anaconda insists on switching my swap and root partitions, so instead of this:
- /dev/sda1: boot partition
- /dev/sda2: swap partition
- /dev/sda3: root partition
... I get this:
- /dev/sda1: boot partition
- /dev/sda2: root partition
- /dev/sda3: swap partition
Up until now this hasn't bothered me much. But for my needs right now it does, because I need my root partition to be at the end of the disk, so it can be expanded later on.
Anyone knows how I can prevent Anaconda from switching my root and swap partitions? What I'm doing right now is switching to a text console with Ctrl-Alt-F5, manually partition using fdisk, switch back to Anaconda and then rescan the disk, but it's quite a PITA.
That's exactly what I wanted to suggest you :-)
I never found a better way...
Simon