Extra partition being created

[Carl J. Van Arsdall]

Michael Tautschnig wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>>     
>
> /dev/sda2 is what you implictly requested - an extended partition (you said the
> swap partition should be a logical one, so setup_harddisks inferred an extend
> partition must be created).
>
>   
Oh, I see, because I said it was a "logical" disk so an extended 
partition had to be created to house the logical disk.  Its been a while 
since I've done some of this stuff, but is that more or less correct?

-carl

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