Re: Prevent Anaconda from switching root and swap partition

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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

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