SUMMARY: disk config's preserve option does not work

[Mate Kosor]

Hi!

I realized I posted question about preserve option for disk config under
title "Re: MD5 Support". (I wondered why there's no response :) I copied
the old post at the end.

As figured out from old posts it seems that preserve option does not work
when applied to logical partitions. So, to fix my partitioning scheme I
have to make partitions primary. This could be somewhat problematic in
some situations ((/ + /boot as primary) + 2 preserved + (1 or more)) but
for me the following should work:

disk_config hda
primary  /            512          rw,errors=remount-ro ;ext2
primary  /local       preserve2    rw                   ;ext2
logical  swap         1024         rw
logical  /usr         6144         rw                   ;ext2
logical  /tmp         8192         rw                   ;ext2

disk_config hdd
primary  /.home       preserve1    rw                   ;ext2
primary  /local1      preserve2    rw                   ;ext2
logical  /var         4096         rw                   ;ext2
logical  swap         1024         rw
   
I hope I've put things right.
To sum up: preserve works only for primary partitions!

###Related:
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From: mod+linux-fai 
Subject: Can't preserve extended partitions? 
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 07:53:33 -0700 
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Mate



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From: Mate Kosor 
Subject: Re: MD5 Support 
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 00:15:40 -0800 


We have fai 2.3.1.
I can not get preserve option in disk_config to work. Is this known bug in
this version or have I done things wrong way?

root at l2:/usr/local/share/fai/disk_config# less 2HD80
# <type> <mountpoint> <size in mb> [mount options]     [;extra options]

disk_config hda
primary  /            512          rw,errors=remount-ro ;ext2
logical  swap         1024         rw
logical  /usr         6144         rw                   ;ext2
logical  /local       preserve7    rw                   ;ext2
logical  /tmp         8192         rw                   ;ext2

disk_config hdd
primary  /var         4096         rw                   ;ext2
logical  swap         1024         rw
logical  /.home       preserve6    rw                   ;ext2
logical  /local1      preserve7    rw                   ;ext2