On 3/31/21 11:10 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > 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. an alternative could be to NOT create any swap partition, and set up a swap file instead. man mkswap man swapon