[Libosinfo] [PATCH] fedora,rhel: Bigger boot partition

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Tue Oct 14 12:22:08 UTC 2014


Hey,

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 02:40:27PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> I had a RHEL VM where I got into trouble when yum wasn't able to upgrade
> system as my boot partition was too small to fit new kernel image.
> Kickstart format allows us to just say that we want the size to be
> whatever is the recommended value so lets make use of that.
> 
> I tested against RHEL 7.0 and /boot was allocated 512MB.

ACK.
Fwiw (and totally unrelated to your changes), I'd go with a much
lower swap space on minimal instances

Christophe

> ---
>  data/install-scripts/fedora.xml | 2 +-
>  data/install-scripts/rhel.xml   | 4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/data/install-scripts/fedora.xml b/data/install-scripts/fedora.xml
> index e4113ae..76f28da 100644
> --- a/data/install-scripts/fedora.xml
> +++ b/data/install-scripts/fedora.xml
> @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ clearpart --all --drives=<xsl:call-template name="target-disk"/>
>  <xsl:if test="os/version > 15">
>  part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1
>  </xsl:if>
> -part /boot --fstype <xsl:call-template name="bootfs"/> --size=200 --ondisk=<xsl:call-template name="target-disk"/>
> +part /boot --fstype <xsl:call-template name="bootfs"/> --recommended --ondisk=<xsl:call-template name="target-disk"/>
>  part pv.2 --size=1 --grow --ondisk=<xsl:call-template name="target-disk"/>
>  volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.2
>  logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=768 --grow --maxsize=1536
> diff --git a/data/install-scripts/rhel.xml b/data/install-scripts/rhel.xml
> index d647072..097bd04 100644
> --- a/data/install-scripts/rhel.xml
> +++ b/data/install-scripts/rhel.xml
> @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ zerombr
>  
>  clearpart --all --drives=<xsl:call-template name="target-disk"/>
>  
> -part /boot --fstype ext4 --size=200 --ondisk=<xsl:call-template name="target-disk"/>
> +part /boot --fstype ext4 --recommended --ondisk=<xsl:call-template name="target-disk"/>
>  part pv.2 --size=1 --grow --ondisk=<xsl:call-template name="target-disk"/>
>  volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.2
>  logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=768 --grow --maxsize=1536
> @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ clearpart --all --drives=<xsl:call-template name="target-disk"/>
>  
>  firstboot --disable
>  
> -part /boot --fstype ext4 --size=200 --ondisk=<xsl:call-template name="target-disk"/>
> +part /boot --fstype ext4 --recommended --ondisk=<xsl:call-template name="target-disk"/>
>  part pv.2 --size=1 --grow --ondisk=<xsl:call-template name="target-disk"/>
>  volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.2
>  logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=768 --grow --maxsize=1536
> -- 
> 2.1.0
> 
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