@Alan, Yes you're absolutely right. My mistake to refer it as a kickstart.
I have always assumed 'kickstart' as a generic term for all auto
installation files, like autoyast. Learned my lesson when I first played
with spacewalk and I was wondering why the kickstart file option was greyed
out for SuSe distro :P. Thanks.

@Drew, Originally the value for /opt is 30GB. I modified it to 36GB, to see
if it changes. No go. The setup is 2 drives, each with the size of 300GB,
configured as RAID1 (hardware RAID). Now come to think about it, not long
ago I added a post-script in the autoyast file, but it never got executed.
The changes must have not been picked up at all. So I guess it's not just a
partition problem. Any changes just won't take effect. I'll do more testing
when I have the chance. Thanks.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Marold, Drew <[email protected]>
wrote:

>  Is the /opt volume getting created as 36GB or is it also getting 18 ?
> Does changing the size value on that one work ? How big is the drive
> overall ?
>
>
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Gi Dot
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 23, 2015 05:51
> *To:* cobbler mailing list
> *Subject:* Re: [cobbler] Changes in kickstart file do not take effect in
> Cobbler.
>
>
>
> My kickstart file for reference.
>
> http://pastebin.com/HxfUkFE8
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Gi Dot <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Update: I tried on a brand new server, and still the same. I am baffled.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Gi Dot <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It is a reinstall over an existing system, though I'm pretty sure I did
> try on a new system as well. The 'clearpart -all' is how you clear
> partitions with CentOS kickstart? In my SuSE autoyast kickstart file I have
> this:
>
> <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize>
> ## If set to "true", the partition table gets wiped out before AutoYaST
> starts the partition calculation.
>
> During the installation I can see that all of the partitions got wiped
> out, but during the creation, the old values took place.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:17 PM, Marold, Drew <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>   Are you reinstalling over an existing system, or a totally new one ? If
> the former,  does your kickstart include the stanza to remove any existing
> partitions ?
>
>
>
> # Partition clearing information
>
> clearpart --all
>
>
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Gi Dot
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 22, 2015 00:29
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [cobbler] Changes in kickstart file do not take effect in
> Cobbler.
>
>
>
> I am using Cobbler to install SLES 11 SP2 and it has been running fine all
> the while. Recently I modified the kickstart file by changing the size of
> the root partition from 18GB to 36GB. To my surprise the modification did
> not take place - Cobbler created a root partition with the size of 18GB. I
> tried removing the profile, renaming it, but no success.
>
> I am completely stump as to where Cobbler is getting the value 18GB from.
> Is there some kind of cache that is keeping the old kickstart file
> somewhere and I need to clear that up first?
>
> The part where I did the modification:
>
> <partition>
>   <create config:type="boolean">true</create>
>   <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs>
>   <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
>   <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
>   <fstopt>acl,user_xattr</fstopt>
>   <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs>
>   <lv_name>lvroot</lv_name>
>   <mount>/</mount>
>   <mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby>
>   <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
>   <raid_options/>
>   <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
>   <size>36GB</size>
> </partition>
>
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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