Installation guide

• 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 in-
teger 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.
--onpart= or --usepart=
Put the partition on the already existing device. For example:
partition /home --onpart=hda1
puts /home on /dev/hda1, which must already exist.
--ondisk= or --ondrive=
Forces the partition to be created on a particular disk. For example, --ondisk=sdb puts the
partition on the second SCSI disk on the system.
--asprimary
Forces automatic allocation of the partition as a primary partition, or the partitioning fails.
--type= (replaced by fstype)
This option is no longer available. Use fstype.
--fstype=
Sets the file system type for the partition. Valid values are ext2, ext3, swap, and vfat.
--start=
Specifies the starting cylinder for the partition. It requires that a drive be specified with -
-ondisk= or ondrive=. It also requires that the ending cylinder be specified with --end= or the
partition size be specified with --size=.
--end=
Specifies the ending cylinder for the partition. It requires that the starting cylinder be spe-
cified with --start=.
--bytes-per-inode=
Specifies the size of inodes on the filesystem to be made on the partition. Not all filesystems
support this option, so it is silently ignored for those cases.
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