preserve existing partitions

[Bruce Edge]

Use a hook to fire off sfdisk to read the partitions, then generate your own disk config files on the fly?

-Bruce


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gernot Weber [mailto:gweber at kph.uni-mainz.de]
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 11:59 PM
> To: linux-fai at uni-koeln.de
> Subject: RE: preserve existing partitions
> 
> 
> Hi,
> > Sure, in /usr/share/doc/fai/README.disk_config.gz it states:
> >
> > Preserving partitions:
> >
> > It is possible to preserve the size of a partition or 
> additionally to
> 
> ... I read this one. But in this case I have to check every 
> machine, if
> there is only one windows partition or fo there are two and 
> than I have to
> alter the disk config file. But I would like to partition the 
> free space
> no matter how many partition there are already on the disk...
> 
> Bye,
> 
>     Gernot
>