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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