Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 System Administration Manual page 33

If more than one Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation exists on the system on different partitions,
the installation program prompts the user and asks which installation to upgrade.
Warning
All partitions created are formatted as part of the installation process unless --
noformat and --onpart are used.
For a detailed example of part in action, refer to
<mntpoint>
The <mntpoint> is where the partition is mounted and must be of one of the following forms:
• /<path>
For example, /, /usr, /home
• swap
The partition is used as swap space.
To determine the size of the swap partition automatically, use the --recommended option:
swap --recommended
The minimum size of the automatically-generated swap partition is no smaller than the
amount of RAM in the system and no larger than twice the amount of RAM in the system.
Using the recommended option yields a limitation of 8GB for the swap partition. If you want
to create a larger swap partition, specify the correct size in the kickstart file or create the
partitions manually.
• raid.<id>
The partition is used for software RAID (refer to raid).
• pv.<id>
The partition is used for LVM (refer to logvol).
--size=
The minimum partition size in megabytes. Specify an integer value here such as 500. Do not
append the number with MB.
--grow
Tells the partition to grow to fill available space (if any), or up to the maximum size setting.
--maxsize=
The maximum partition size in megabytes when the partition is set to grow. Specify an integer
value here, and do not append the number with MB.
--noformat
Tells the installation program not to format the partition, for use with the --onpart command.
Section 1.4.1, "Advanced Partitioning
Kickstart Options
Example".
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