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swap --recommended
The minimum size of the automatically-generated swap partition will be no smaller
than the amount of RAM in the system and no bigger than twice the amount of
RAM in the system.
raid.
id
The partition will be used for software RAID (see the Section 1.4.20 below).
--size 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
size
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.
--onpart
part or --usepart part
Tells the installation program to put the partition on the already existing device
part . For example, partition /home --onpart hda1 will put /home on
/dev/hda1, which must already exist.
--ondisk
disk or --ondrive drive
Forces the partition to be created on a particular disk. For example, --ondisk sdb
will put the partition on the second disk on the system.
--asprimary
Forces automatic allocation of the partition as a primary partition or the partition-
ing will fail.
--bytes-per-inode=
N
N represents the number of bytes per inode on the filesystem when it is created.
It must be given in decimal format. This option is useful for applications where you
want to increase the number of inodes on the filesystem.
--type= X (replaced by fstype)
This option is no longer available. Use fstype.
--fstype
Sets the filesystem type for the partition. Valid values are ext2, ext3, swap, and
vfat.