I am trying to finish off a kickstart file for a computer lab on CentOS 6.5 machines. I don't want to have a separate /home as I'm going to add an entry in fstab for it to nfs mount /home from a server.
Is there a way to have it autopart the rest of the file system without /home? Wanting to keep autopart for size since not all hard drives across the labs are the same.
Matt
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On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Matthew Sweet matthew.sweet@valpo.edu wrote:
I am trying to finish off a kickstart file for a computer lab on CentOS 6.5 machines. I don't want to have a separate /home as I'm going to add an entry in fstab for it to nfs mount /home from a server.
Is there a way to have it autopart the rest of the file system without /home? Wanting to keep autopart for size since not all hard drives across the labs are the same.
Just don't specify a separate partition for /home in your kickstart. A directory for /home will always exist on root file system (whether you have the homedir data stored locally or on a separate partition). Unless you create a user account (other than root), /home will not have any directories beneath it.
On 22.07.2014 23:56, Matthew Sweet wrote:
I am trying to finish off a kickstart file for a computer lab on CentOS 6.5 machines. I don't want to have a separate /home as I'm going to add an entry in fstab for it to nfs mount /home from a server.
Is there a way to have it autopart the rest of the file system without /home? Wanting to keep autopart for size since not all hard drives across the labs are the same.
Don't use auto-partitioning at all and instead create a boot partition with fixed size, a swap partition with fixed size and lastly a root partition with "--size=1 --grow". That way the partition will use the rest of the available disk space.
Regards, Dennis
On 07/22/14 21:15, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
On 22.07.2014 23:56, Matthew Sweet wrote:
I am trying to finish off a kickstart file for a computer lab on CentOS 6.5 machines. I don't want to have a separate /home as I'm going to add an entry in fstab for it to nfs mount /home from a server.
Is there a way to have it autopart the rest of the file system without /home? Wanting to keep autopart for size since not all hard drives across the labs are the same.
Don't use auto-partitioning at all and instead create a boot partition with fixed size, a swap partition with fixed size and lastly a root partition with "--size=1 --grow". That way the partition will use the rest of the available disk space.
Pretty much what we did at work. These days, instead, we keep / to 500G (-1G for /boot, and 2G for swap), and the fourth partition is -grow. Keeps user data, etc, from eating /....
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