Installation guide

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 xfs, ext2,
ext3, ext4, swap, vfat, and hfs.
--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 specified 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.
--recommended — Determine the size of the partition automatically.
--onbiosdisk — Forces the partition to be created on a particular disk as discovered
by the BIOS.
--encrypted — Specifies that this partition should be encrypted.
--passphrase= — Specifies the passphrase to use when encrypting this partition.
Without the above --encrypted option, this option does nothing. If no passphrase is
specified, the default system-wide one is used, or the installer will stop and prompt if
there is no default.
--fsoptions= — Specifies a free form string of options to be used when mounting the
filesystem. This string will be copied into the /etc/fstab file of the installed system and
should be enclosed in quotes.
--label= — assign a label to an individual partition.
Note
If partitioning fails for any reason, diagnostic messages appear on virtual console 3.
poweroff ( o p t io n al)
Shut down and power off the system after the installation has successfully completed.
Normally during a manual installation, anaconda displays a message and waits for the
user to press a key before rebooting. During a kickstart installation, if no completion
method is specified, the halt option is used as default.
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