Extra partition being created

Carl J. Van Arsdall cvanarsdall at mvista.com
Mon Nov 27 20:14:05 CET 2006


It would appear to me as though somehow an extra partition is being 
created during the disk setup.  Here is my partition setup file, the 
partition.sda from the logs, is there a script somewhere adding an extra 
partition?

#disk_config/FAIBASE
# generic disk configuration for one small disk
# disk size from 500Mb up to what you can buy today
#
# <type> <mountpoint> <size in mb> [mount options]     [;extra options]

disk_config disk1
primary  /             3000-      rw,errors=remount-ro ; -c -j ext3
logical  swap          1000      rw
# logical /home        preserve9   rw,nosuid            ; -m 1 -j ext3



#logs/partition.sda
glue:/var/log/fai/node-27/last# cat partition.sda
# partition table of device: /dev/sda
unit: sectors

/dev/sda1 : start=        63, size=  33784632, Id= 83, bootable
/dev/sda2 : start=  33784695, size=   2056320, Id=  5
/dev/sda3 : start=         0, size=         0, Id=  0
/dev/sda4 : start=         0, size=         0, Id=  0
/dev/sda5 : start=  33784758, size=   2056257, Id= 82


The partition on /dev/sda2 is extra and not something I defined.  I just 
want one big partition and a 1 gig swap, is my configuration wrong?  
Furthermore, I looked at the partition table via fdisk, these partitions 
are assigned to the same starting point?

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda: 18.3 GB, 18351967232 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2231 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        2103    16892316   83  Linux
/dev/sda2            2104        2231     1028160    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            2104        2231     1028128+  82  Linux swap / Solaris



Thanks,

-carl

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Carl J. Van Arsdall
cvanarsdall at mvista.com
Build and Release
MontaVista Software



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