Hi everyone. I have a bunch of systems currently running Redhat 7.1. They are currently partitioned as follows: / /dev/hda1 (3 Gb) Extended partition /dev/hda2 swap /dev/hda5 (2 Gb) /inst /dev/hda6 (rest of disk) /local/stage1 /dev/hdb1 (all disk) /local/stage2 /dev/hdd1 (all disk) What I want to do is: 1) wipe out the three partitions on the system disk and install 7.3. 2) Migrate the file systems on hdb1 and hdd1, which are currently ext2, to ext3, while saving the data. Both of these can easily be done when doing a manual install. If you look at the anaconda-ks.cfg file that's made when you do that, you get the following: (with a comment that it's not guaranteed to work) part / --fstype ext3 --size 3000 --ondisk hda part swap --size 2000 --ondisk hda part /inst --size 1000 --grow --ondisk hda part /local/stage1 --fstype ext3 --noformat --onpart hdb1 part /local/stage2 --fstype ext3 --noformat --onpart hdd1 --------------------------------------------------- The three partitions I requested above for hda, under a clean 7.3 install with nothing else on the machine, would all be allocated as primary partitions. If I try to run a kickstart with the above, preceded by the statement clearpart --drives hda I get the error message that it cannot allocate the partitions as primary partitions. If I take any clearpart statement out, and instead use the old partitioning exactly as it is, e.g. part / --fstype ext3 --onpart hda1 part swap --size 2000 --onpart hda5 part /inst --fstype ext3 --onpart hda6 part /local/stage1 --fstype ext3 --noformat --onpart hdb1 part /local/stage2 --fstype ext3 --noformat --onpart hdd1 then it works fine--except it doesn't migrate the two disks that are not formatted to ext3...they stay ext2. So two questions: 1) Is there a bug in the clearpart command? If we do clearpart --drives hda, shouldn't we be able to put any partition structure on there we want? 2) Is there any way to get the disks to migrate from ext2 to ext3 during kickstart? Thanks for your help. Steve Timm ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven C. Timm (630) 840-8525 timm@xxxxxxxx http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/ Fermilab Computing Division/Core Support Services Dept. Assistant Group Leader, Scientific Computing Support Group Lead of Computing Farms Team
