Preserving Non-Mounted Partitions

[Henning Sprang]

On 12/28/06, Brian E. Seppanen <seppy at chartermi.net> wrote:
> [...]
> disk_config disk1
> primary /compaq  9              ro                      ; preserve1
>
> The installation sequence ended up creating a ext3 partition, whereas the
> data was not an ext3 partition previously.

Because this config is completely wrong - where did you get that from?

Here's an example (taken from fai 3.x, but I think this syntax did not change):

logical /home        preserve9   rw,nosuid            ; -m 1 -j ext3


Henning