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 Thx for your suggestion!

 I am trying since yesterday to achieve this but unfortunately the 
 installer always start in a text-based mode and cannot change the 
 partition scheme from there :-(

 If I do it manually do you think that it will work?

 Best,

 G.

 On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:01:45 -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> On 02/27/2014 03:28 PM, Georgios Dimitrakakis wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I 've created a CentOS image using the guide here:
>> http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/content/centos-image.html
>>
>> I have succesfully booted the image in OpenStack and created a new 
>> VM.
>>
>> My problem is that the swap indicated in horizon at the flavor that 
>> I am
>> using for the VM is not corresponds in the swap at the VM. No matter
>> whatever I put it always has 2GB.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Several, but in a nutshell this part of the guide: "we recommend you 
> use
> the installer's default partition scheme, since there is no clear
> advantage to one scheme or another" is wrong.
>
> Don't let the installer partition the disk for you, make one /
> partition, no swap. After the install add to the end of
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local (watch out for wordwrap):
>
> blkid | grep 'TYPE="swap"'
> if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
>     dev=`blkid | grep 'TYPE="swap"' | awk '{print $1;}' | sed -r 
> 's/:$//'`
>     if [ -n "$dev" ] ; then
>         mkswap $dev
>         swapon $dev
>     fi
> fi
>
> Take a look at this: http://www.logilab.org/blogentry/115219