On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 22:29 -0500, David A. Marlin wrote:
> I am using livemedia-creator on F17 to create a disk image. I manually
> select the partitioning scheme in the kickstart:
>
> clearpart --all
> part /boot --size 255 --fstype ext3 --label=boot
> part swap --size 511
> part / --size 3327 --fstype ext4 --label=rootfs
>
> Previously I created several disk images and they all had the partitions
> in the following order:
>
> 1 - /boot
> 2 - swap
> 3 - / (root)
>
> I created another disk image today, but the partitions are now in the
> following order:
>
> 1 - /boot
> 2 - / (root)
> 3 - swap
>
> The reason this is significant is that after installing the disk image
> onto physical media I want to be able to resize the root partition
> ('/'), and that is only practical if it is the last partition on the image.
>
> So my question is, what determines the order of the partitions on a disk
> image, and is there a way to select, or guarantee a specific order?
We intentionally do not provide any way to try to ensure ordering of
partitions. However, for your simple case you can achieve what you want
by passing --asprimary as an argument to /boot and swap, but not root.
That should be enough to cause it to be allocated last.
Dave
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> d.marlin
>
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